Review: Mozart’s Così Fan Tutte Is Great Fun Set in the 1920s at the Lyric Opera
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is a classical music genius from the 16th century. He was also something of a rock star in the 20th century. Mozart was one of the few […]
Dispatch: Puppet Theater Festival Ends With Shows Featuring Sexy Puppets, a Hungry Crocodile, a Cat and Two Dogs
The 8th Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival concluded Sunday, after 12 days of puppet theater productions at dozens of venues around the city. Our Third Coast writers are puppetry fans […]
Review: Theatre L’Acadie’s Rising Water Is a Slow Stream
Rising Water is one of a trilogy of plays by John Biguenet about Hurricane Katrina; the other two plays are Shotgun and Mold. It has been 20 years since America […]
Review: Stereophonic—a Play With a Little Music—Tells the Story of a Not-Yet-Famous Rock Band Producing an Album
Stereophonic is a play about a year in the life of a rock band (never named) and the personal and musical trials and tribulations it goes through during recording sessions […]
Review: Salome at the Lyric Opera Melts the Chicago Deep Freeze With Strauss and Suspense
In the Bible, the name of the Princess of Judea is never mentioned. In his 1893 play, Oscar Wilde gave the teenage seductress a name: Salome. In 1905, Richard Strauss completed […]
Dispatch: International Puppet Theater Festival Launches With Innovative Shows Performed by Puppeteer Teams and Solos
It’s the first week of the 8th Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival and this is our first dispatch with brief reviews of some of the shows we’ve seen so far. […]
Review: Suzy Eddie Izzard Talks Shakespeare N’Stuff at Chicago Shakespeare
Actor/comedian/marathoning fundraising activist Suzy Eddie Izzard (she/her) stopped by Chicago Shakespeare Theater for a chinwag with artistic director Edward Hall last week, also taking many audience questions in a freewheeling, […]
Review: Eureka Day by Timeline Theatre Is a Play for Today About Vaccine, Parenting and Group Decision-Making
Eureka Day is a play about vaccination and anti-vaccination. But of course, it’s about a lot more. The play, now being staged by Timeline Theatre, tells the story of how […]
Review: Otherworld Theatre’s Prospera: A Sci-Fi Retelling Imagines a New World But Gets Too Complicated
Prospera: A Sci-Fi Retelling is a fanciful but complicated story in its new production by Otherworld Theatre. The play is an adaptation of Shakespeare’s late play, The Tempest, but you […]
Review: Green Corridors at Trap Door Theatre Tells a Ukrainian Playwright’s Story of War and Displacement
Green Corridors focuses on the stories of four Ukrainian women and other citizens trying to escape the brutality of Russian attacks on Ukraine in the war that Russia started in […]
On the Road: A Midwesterner Decodes the Chaos of the British Pantomime
Third Coast Review contributor Tory Crowley is a native Midwesterner currently living in Budapest, Hungary. Please enjoy her European cultural notes. When I told my British co-worker that I’d be […]
Review: Taiko Legacy 22 Adds a Groove to the Message of Peace in Yoko Ono’s Skylanding
In 2016, legendary avant-garde artist and musician Yoko Ono presented Chicago with a sculpture called Skylanding. It stands in Jackson Park on the same site where the Japanese Pavilion stood […]