Nancy S. Bishop is publisher and Stages editor of Third Coast Review. She’s a member of the American Theatre Critics Association and a 2014 Fellow of the National Critics Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. You can read her personal writing on pop culture at nancybishopsjournal.com, and follow her on Twitter @nsbishop. She also writes about film, books, art, architecture and design.
The evening opened with DJ Cash-Era playing some tunes as the audience gathered in the elegant ballroom of the Richard Driehaus Museum, that mansion of the Gilded Age. The ballroom’s […]
We’re Gonna Be Okay is a cold-war era story that reminds us that when danger is in the air, it’s time to take stock of our priorities—and give a little […]
Todd Ricketts, of the Cubs-owning Ricketts family, is rumored to be named finance chair of the Republican National Committee. He would replace Steve Wynn, who has resigned over sexual misconduct […]
Chicago just finished a record year for film and TV production and 2018 is looking good. The mayor’s office says that 580 projects–including eight full-season TV series and parts of […]
Charles Newell’s production of Arthur Miller’s All My Sons at Court Theatre is an emotionally wrenching tragedy. Secrets and lies that have been hidden for years are gradually teased out. […]
It was once a neighborhood where family-owned meatpackers thrived, then loft condo conversions moved in, followed by trendy restaurants. Now major change is in store for the area west of […]
As if to prove you can out-Ibsen Ibsen, playwright Brett Neveu has taken Henrik Ibsen’s 1882 play, An Enemy of the People, and transmogrified it into a contemporary setting. Neveu […]
During the government shutdown, U.S. mail will still be delivered, Social Security and Medicare payments will be made, VA hospitals will operate, and you’ll be able to travel from O’Hare […]
A soldier’s journal is the thread that weaves together the characters and the story in Yank! A WWII Love Story over 75 years. Today, a young man (Matthew Huston) finds […]
Rose Kennedy, the “queen mother” of Camelot, is nearing her 79th birthday. She’s well dressed, well coifed, calm and self-assured. She moves like a 79-year-old woman, slowly, a bit creakily. […]
(An homage to the St. Louis poet who became a Brit and also to Lou Rawls) January is the cruelest month. Where did T.S. Eliot get that April business? […]
The headlines are about major cities declining—in population, in industry, in jobs. But smaller cities are changing too as revolutions in manufacturing, agriculture and mining affect small cities and towns, […]