City Lit’s Forty-Two Stories: Behind the Scenes at a High-Rise Condo Where Stuff Happens
Do you live in a highrise condo on Lake Shore Drive? Or spend time with someone who does? Then all your suspicions about what goes on behind the scenes will […]
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.
Feeling Nostalgic? See Red Orchid’s 3C: R-Rated “Three’s Company” in ’70s Color
A Red Orchid Theatre’s new production, 3C, reminds me of two things I’d rather forget. The silly sitcom, “Three’s Company,” that aired on ABC for eight years, ending in 1984. […]
Raven’s Not About Nightingales Introduces Tennessee Williams’ Depression-Era Prison Tragedy
Not About Nightingales, an early Tennessee Williams script, is a Depression-era tragedy with many elements that foretell Williams’ genius as a playwright. Its setting—a large prison where the prisoners revolt […]
Third Coast Rewind: Chicago Lawyer Heads North to Defend Pipeline Protestors
Melinda Power works in a storefront law office on Division Street, between the two gateways that demarcate the Puerto Rican community. Many of her everyday clients are members of the […]
No One Flies at Shattered Globe in For Peter Pan on Her 70th Birthday
For Peter Pan on Her 70th Birthday is a gift by playwright Sarah Ruhl to her actor mother, Kathleen, who plays herself in this three-part family story. The 85-minute play […]
Steppenwolf’s Linda Vista: An Adult Comedy About a Guy Who Isn’t
Linda Vista, in its world premiere at Steppenwolf Theatre, is a smart and thoroughly entertaining production—a very adult comedy—funny, sexy and poignant. Dexter Bullard, who directed The Flick and has […]
Poetry Foundation Introduces Us to Jun Fujita, Poet, Pioneer Photojournalist
Jun Fujita thought of himself first as a poet and an artist. He wrote Japanese poetry in the form known as tanka and took exquisite black-and-white landscape and flower photos […]
In to America at Griffin Theatre Tells Our Origin Story, Warts and All
In to America, the world premiere production by Griffin Theatre, is America’s origin story, a documentary-style production that tells our history of immigration and multiculturalism, in all its glorious and cruel aspects. William […]
Meet Billie, a Blonde Bombshell with an Attitude in Remy Bumppo’s Born Yesterday
It’s been years since I’ve seen the film Born Yesterday starring Judy Holliday as Billie Dawn and Broderick Crawford as Harry, her overbearing boyfriend. My memory of the film is kinda […]
EU Film Festival Ends: Two Docs Plus Other Films We Watched for You
The European Union Film Festival wraps up this week with another round of fine films to be screened through March 30 at the Gene Siskel Film Center. Most of them […]
10 out of 12 Recreates Theatrical Sausage-Making at Theater Wit
I don’t know if you’ll like 10 out of 12, the new inside-theater play at Theater Wit. But I did. If you love theater and see a lot of it, […]
Trap Door’s Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui Satirizes Rise of a Dictator and Current Political Chaos
Chicago gangsters fight over the ownership and expansion of the cauliflower trust into Cicero. You may think that sounds like a farce, but The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui is […]