ATC’s Men on Boats Surveys the American West and the Gender Landscape
Men on Boats, a regional premiere now on stage at American Theater Company, is the story of the 1869 exploration of the Green and Colorado rivers for the U.S. government. […]
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.
Not Your President? Chicago Creative Community Schedules Anti-Trump Activism Events
Special thanks to the Facebook group Chicago Activist Writers who supplied many of the events and descriptions in this round-up. If you’re looking to attend readings and events surrounding and […]
Trap Door’s Phèdre Tells Greek Tragedy 21st Century Style
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 […]
Best of 2016: A Few Final Thoughts on Music and Art
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, […]
Best of 2016: Our Favorite Food Stories—Hot Dogs, Empanadas, Kimchi Fries and Strange Foods
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 […]
Best of 2016: On Stage in Chicago
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 […]
Coming Up: The Best of 2016 by 3CR Writers
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 […]
Ghost Stories and Missed Connections at The Weir, a Classic “Third Place”
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 […]
The Christians Dramatizes a Crisis at a Megachurch–With Music
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 […]
Promethean’s Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde Takes Gender-Bending Approach to Art and Justice
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 […]
Griffin Theatre’s Winterset Tells Poetic Depression-Era Story of Love and Injustice
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 Mounts a Classic and Sparkling Pygmalion With Modern Touches
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 […]