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.
Trap Door Theatre’s punky, funky production of Racine’s Phèdre is 75 minutes of Greek theater done 21st century style, directed by Trap Door veteran Nicole Weisner. The fanciful costuming and […]
2016 is over and we hope you’ve had a chance to read the Best-of-2016 posts that our writers and editors have created on each page: Stages, Screens, Music, Art, Lit, […]
Four Food stories resonated with our readers this year. Two of the posts with the most reader visits for our entire website were on the Food page. Hot Dog […]
As usual, Chicago’s more than 200 theaters—both Equity and non-Equity—provided a magical wealth of productions for theatergoers and theater critics alike. Third Coast Review’s Stages writers reviewed more than 200 […]
Third Coast Review has been in operation for almost a year. Our first anniversary is coming up in a couple of weeks. We’ve been collectively mulling over events of the […]
The Guinness tap may not be working tonight at the local pub, but the stout flows freely anyway in this tale of ghost stories and real-life emotion at Irish Theatre […]
Lucas Hnath’s play The Christians at Steppenwolf Theatre challenges the belief systems of its characters on stage as well as those of religious and nonreligious audience members. The heart of The Christians […]
Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde is a documentary-style play set in a courtroom. Lest you think that sounds dry, it isn’t. The script is flush with the […]
Winterset is a tough and beautiful play. Griffin Theatre’s production of Maxwell Anderson’s Depression-era play, directed by Jonathan Berry, is admirable, simply staged and appropriately performed, and, for the most […]
Remy Bumppo Theatre’s new production of George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion is a sparkling, proto-feminist version of the classic 1912 script. Director Shawn Douglass makes sure we capture every word of […]
Shakespeare on Film is a carefully curated array of film adaptations of Shakespearean plays, beginning this week and running until January 3 at the Gene Siskel Film Center. This is […]
Nelson Algren was a star in Chicago’s bright literary firmament, but his light dimmed in the years after he won the 1950 National Book Award for The Man With the […]