Preview: The C2E2 2023 Choose Your Own Adventure
It’s Spring Break time, which means while some are heading to balmier locales for drinking contests and poolside tanning, there’s a different contingent of nerds and pop culture fans headed […]
Review: Redtwist’s Babel Explores the Pursuit of Human Perfection
Survival of the fittest means that a species that adapts to its environment will be the best suited to reproduce—aka Darwinism. Playwright Jacqueline Goldfinger’s Babel presents a dystopian view of […]
Review: A Jam-Packed Night with Tiffany Day
Review by guest author Mary Icenogle. From posting covers on YouTube seven years ago to her first headlining tour in the Gratitude Tour, Tiffany Day is just getting started. Singer/DJ/producer/songwriter […]
Review: Ibeyi’s Connection With Their Fans Highlights Their Magnificent Thalia Hall Set
It’s been a while since I had the chance to see Ibeyi perform; in fact it was all the way back in 2015 at Lincoln Hall when I got to […]
Review: Relaxing Terra Nil Features a Novel Twist on City Builders
It’s rare to come across a video game with a novel twist on a tried-and-true genre. City builders have been around for over thirty years, and mostly consist of building […]
Review: Lush Contemporary Music Blends With Metaphysics and Science in The Life and Death of Alan Turing by Chicago Opera Theater
.Composer Justine Chen and librettist David Simpatico have worked for over a decade to bring The Life and Death[s] of Alan Turing to the opera stage. It was commissioned in […]
Interview: Lena Olin and Tora Hallström on Hilma, Playing the Same Character, Speaking with Spirits and Finding the Science in Art
When filmmaker Lasse Hallström (Chocolat, The Cider House Rules, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape) prepares to release a new film, people tend to take notice, especially when the prolific director who […]
Review: Though it Lacks Dramatic Tension, Zach Braff’s A Good Person Features Some Good Acting
As a writer/director, Zach Braff tends toward the lighter side of dramas with works like Garden State and Wish I Was Here, but with his latest effort, A Good Person, […]
Review: In John Wick: Chapter 4 the Assassin Turns Superhero, with Action Scenes (and a Runtime) to Match
I’ve long given up on trying to recall or understand the mythology behind the John Wick movies. I kind of remember that the 2014 original was the decidedly simple story […]
Review: Highwaymen, Hookers, and Thieves: The Threepenny Opera at Theo Ubique
The songs in Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s The Threepenny Opera remain standards: “Pirate Jenny,” “Tango Ballad,” and especially “Mack the Knife,” which is arguably the world’s most famous murder […]
Review: An Abundance of Black Joy in Second City’s Dance Like There Are Black People Watching
“After a meeting with several Black alumni and current Second City employees, we have come to the conclusion that the erasure, racial discrimination, manipulation, pay inequity, tokenism, monetization of Black […]
Dispatch: Siskel’s European Union Film Festival Concludes with Compelling Personal Stories
The Chicago European Union Film Festival screens throughout March at downtown’s Siskel Film Center. Third Coast Review staff bring you capsule reviews of select premieres and special screenings each week. […]