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Stories on Chicago's performing arts worlds. To draw together Chicago’s diverse and at times fractious tap community, Mark Yonally of Chicago Tap Theatre and M.A.D.D. Rhythms founder Bril Barrett created the Chicago Tap Allstars—an umbrella organization that convenes the two companies and independent tap artists for joint performances, …
Can’t-Miss Fall Stage Events (Fall Arts Preview 2024)
Sep 6, 2024 · Blue Lyric Opera of Chicago November 16-December 1 The Chicago premiere of this new opera, co-produced by the Lyric, promises to be poignant, heartbreaking and yet a musical treat, with a score by Tony Award-winner Jeanine Tesori, a powerful libretto by Tazewell Thompson and the Lyric premiere of bass Kenneth Kellogg. And the story, “of a Black middle-class family in Harlem whose hopes and ...
Stage Top 5: January 2024 | Newcity Stage
Stage Top 5: January 2023 The new year kicks off with gusto, with opera, performance and theater both local and global.
Players 50 2024: The Producers and Places | Newcity Stage
Jan 9, 2024 · Lawrence Daufenbach Executive Director/Founder, Athenaeum Center for Thought and Culture It’s more than just a name change for the former Athenaeum Theatre: Lawrence Daufenbach, executive director and founder of the Athenaeum Center for Thought and Culture has overseen a tremendous revitalization of Chicago’s oldest continuously run Off-Loop theater.
Stage Top 5: February 2024 | Newcity Stage
Jan 31, 2024 · Dance Top 5: February 2024 February brings local favorites like the Joffrey and Hubbard Street, along with international stalwarts to Chicago dance stages.
Stage Top 5: August 2023 - Newcity Stage
Jul 31, 2023 · 1 MJ (Broadway in Chicago) Not our MJ, but rather the late king of pop in a song-and-dance extravaganza created by director-choreographer Christopher Wheeldon and playwright Lynn Nottage. Starts August 1. 2 Today, Tonight, Soon (Theatre L’Acadie) A world premiere by Melanie Coffey promises “a mixture of Regency romance …
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Stage Top 5: November 2023 - Newcity Stage
Oct 31, 2023 · 1 The Lifespan of a Fact (TimeLine Theatre) Artistic director P.J. Powers returns to the stage for the first time since 2015, in a dramatic tale of a magazine story on deadline.
Stage Top 5: September 2023 - Newcity Stage
Dance Top 5: September 2023 The fall season kicks off with a series of festivals.
Stage Top 5: February 2023 - Newcity Stage
Jan 31, 2023 · 1 Boulevard of Bold Dreams (TimeLine Theatre) LaDarrion Williams’ world premiere about “dreamers overcoming obstacles and fighting for recognition amidst the racism and inequity of Hollywood” set on the night that Hattle McDaniel won her historic Oscar in 1940.