Post Tagged with: "New City Stage Company"

“When shall we three meet again, in thunder, lightning or in rain? When the hurlyburly’s done, when the battle’s lost and won.” —William Shakespeare, MACBETH ARTIE: Eddie, can I ask you something? I wanna ask you something…. EDDIE: What? ARTIE: I’m just very curious about the nature of certain patterns [...]

As part of its seventh season on the theme of “The Dysfunctional American Family,” New City Stage Company offers up a raucous spoof of holiday traditions with its first musical production, the Philadelphia premiere of Christopher Durang’s Mrs. Bob Cratchit’s Wild Christmas Binge. Featuring an original 1960s-style score and a [...]

With all the mud-slinging in the current American presidential campaign and negativity about the state of our nation, it is an appropriate time, before the November election, to reflect on an earlier period of high ideals in the midst of horrendous tragedies. New City Stage Company shows the best and [...]

The Edinburgh Fringe Festival receives hundreds of applications from American drama troupes every year. Philadelphia’s New City Stage Company is in talks to become one of those selected to travel to Scotland, transporting a production it premiered last year at the Philly Fringe, a festival inspired by the Scottish counterpart. [...]

Intrigue, romance, morality, and dark comedy coalesce in New City Stage Company’s ASYMMETRIC, a fast-paced one-act world-premiere spy thriller by award-winning playwright Mac Rogers. After seeing a twelve-minute short by the Brooklyn-based Rogers, who fused an espionage tale with the story of a failed marriage, NCSC commissioned the new full-length [...]

Passenger: It’s madness — what sort of an age do we live in? You don’t feel safe anywhere now, only at home… First Passenger: At home? Passenger: Only at home now. First Passenger:. You hold on to your convictions. Violence and fear sure get a lot of press these days, [...]

Judging by the enthusiastic response of the opening night audience, New City Stage Company has struck a reverberating chord with its production of Christopher Durang’s screwball comedy on terrorism, WHY TORTURE IS WRONG, AND THE PEOPLE WHO LOVE THEM. Not your usual holiday pablum, the dark and zany farce offers [...]

New City Stage Company makes its debut at the Fringe Festival this year with a pair of short but intense stream-of-consciousness monologues by Sam Shepard and Joseph Chaiken, SAVAGE/LOVE and TONGUES. Created in the late ‘70s, the avant-garde explorations of love and death through sound and movement perfectly suit the [...]

Aaron Cromie, Mary Tuomanen, and Genevieve Perrier, A PAPER GARDEN Staged en plein air in the Jefferson Garden of the American Philosophical Society, this original 35-minute tale of love and botany at the turn of the 19th century spotlights André Michaux—world-famous explorer, raconteur, and Royal Botanist to Louis XVI. Inspired [...]

Avid theatergoers and culture-hungry tourists got their fill of great productions in July and August, in what used to be Philadelphia summer theater hiatus, before the hectic pace of the Fringe Festival begins in September.  New City Stage Company concluded its themed season on female suicide in July with ‘NIGHT MOTHER.  [...]

In the mid-1990s one of my favorite albums was a dark post-hip hop LP by British artist, Tricky, titled “Pre-Millennium Tension.” In retrospect, the title captures the zeitgeist in the years running up to “Y2K”: a fear that a carefree age might soon be destroyed. This anxiety is also evidenced [...]