Review: Patti LuPone at the Auditorium—a Warm Welcome on a Cold Night
It was a cold Saturday night when Patti LuPone returned to Chicago. But LuPone brought a warm message in a revised edition of Matters of the Heart, the concert piece […]
Review: Horror Film Whistle Finds Scares Are Familiar Genre Tropes With a Solid Young Cast
One of these days, horror movies are going to run out of cursed objects to trigger deaths after a certain number of days. But until that time comes, welcome to […]
Review: As Mockumentaries Go, The Moment Lacks the Awareness Needed To Be In on the Charli xcx Frenzy
I have no doubt that being a successful, touring pop star can be extremely stressful. So when Charli xcx’s album brat ended up being a massive hit (her biggest commercial […]
Dispatch: One Last Sundance in Park City, One Last Round of Film Reviews
Enjoy our latest dispatch from the 2026 Sundance Film Festival…. Next year, it will be Boulder. Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie One of the strongest docs at Sundance […]
Interview: Stevan Miller Gives Us the Inside Scoop on His World as a Beverage Director for Three Chicago Restaurants
It’s no secret that Chicago has some of the best food in the world, but it is also home to some of the best bars, cocktail lounges, speakeasies, and more. […]
Dispatch: As Sundance Film Festival Winds Down, On-Screen Discoveries Abound
Enjoy our latest dispatch from the 2026 Sundance Film Festival…. Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! If Sundance Film Festival is about discoveries, a film like Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! Surely fits […]
Your Chicago Curated Weekend: 2/5 and Beyond
It’s a whole new month with tons of exciting events ready to fill up your weekend! We’re at the final weekend of Chicago Restaurant Week, first weekend of the Chicago […]
Chicago Is Lit: February Literary Events, News, and More
Third Coast Review writer Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch is stepping away from writing the Chicago Is Lit column, though she will continue to contribute to TCR. In the meantime, Lit editor […]
Review: Cairn—A Brutal, Beautiful Struggle Against the Mountain
We are, seemingly, in the middle of a climbing game renaissance. Following the meditative flow of Jusant in 2023 and the high-stakes co-op of 2025’s Peak, Cairn arrives to offer yet another […]
Review: Redtwist Theatre’s Confederates Navigates Nuanced Conversations in Two Eras
It’s evening, and Sandra (Monique Marshaun) is alone in her office. She pulls out a bottle of wine and is set to unwind until co-worker and assistant professor Jade (Toccara […]
Review: Roald Dahl’s The Enormous Crocodile—A Family Delight With Ingenious Puppetry
The Enormous Crocodile by the Roald Dahl Story Company is adapted from Dahl’s 1978 book about a greedy crocodile that wants to eat children. This gigantic creature is rumbling through the […]
Review: Heartbreakingly Real, Where Is My Sister?, by Shannon Gibney, Illustrated by Huy Voun Lee
Where Is My Sister, written by Shannon Gibney and illustrated by Huy Voun Lee, is a heartbreakingly real way to approach the loss of a sibling. Infant death is an […]