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1 week ago | newcitystage.com | Carl Kozlowski

Tim Meadows has been making an indelible impact on the world of American comedy for the past thirty-five years as an actor, writer, stand-up comic as well as one of the greatest sitcom guest stars in the business. He spent the entire decade of the 1990s as a writer/performer on SNL—which makes him one of the top five longest-serving cast members in that venerable institution’s history—but he’s also built a unique and thriving comedy career on his own terms for the past twenty-five years.

2 weeks ago | newcitystage.com | Aaron Hunt

When the last toot of the flute at Lyric Opera sounds for the season, it can get very quiet in the Windy City, until that next gala opening signals the return of larger-scale operatic offerings.

2 weeks ago | newcitystage.com | Mary Wisniewski

It was the summer of 1980—the first season for American Players Theatre in rural Spring Green, Wisconsin. The company was performing “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” on the hilltop stage. William Borth, who hated Shakespeare, had been dragged to the show kicking and complaining. It had rained all day, but stopped before showtime. As Puck made his entrance, a mist rolled over the stage until the fairies were “knee-deep in a swirling, firefly-lit fog,” Borth remembers.

3 weeks ago | newcitystage.com | Mary Wisniewski

RECOMMENDEDThe future used to be so much farther away. We would read dystopian novels about all-knowing, killer robots and think, “That’s scary—but not in my lifetime.”Alas, the future is here now. And “The Antiquities,” an intense and sobering play by Jordan Harrison now being performed at the Goodman’s Owen Theatre, puts the monsters right in your lap.

3 weeks ago | newcitystage.com | Mary Wisniewski

RECOMMENDEDWhen audience members enter the Trap Door Theatre for Bertolt Brecht’s “Galileo,” they see a nearly naked man, sitting on a chair with his face to the wall. They learn that the man is the scientist Galileo Galilei, played by Trap Door artistic producer David Lovejoy. Galileo’s nakedness represents his real self—a visionary who tells uncomfortable truths.