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Preview: Neptune’s Core Makes It Easy to Love “Lemon Car”

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Review: City Lit’s New Musical Scaramouche Thrives on Comedy and Theatrical Flair

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Preview: Shedd Aquarium Opens New 4D-Experience Theater Where You Can Visit the World of Penguins, Sharks and Oct opuses

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Review: At Young People’s Theatre, The Hula Hoopin’ Queen Sings With Joy and Energy

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Review: Second City’s Pandemonium, Please Hold Is Hilarious Musical Mayhem

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Review: Rian Johnson and Daniel Craig Return for Wake Up Dead Man, a Knives Out Mystery Challenging Faith and Shifting the Genre

Although I enjoyed this third installment of the Benoit Blanc/Knives Out mysteries most of all, it’s also the one where Blanc (Daniel Craig) doesn’t show up until about 45 minutes […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • November 30, 2025
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    Review: In Hamnet, Oscar-Winner Chloe Zhao Channels Grief, Family and Shakespeare for One of the Year’s Best

    The cinema has been feeding us a steady diet of sad mothers in recent weeks. When I saw Rose Byrne tear up the screen in If I Had Legs I’d […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • November 29, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Interview

    Interview: Screenwriter Pat Cunnane and Producer Trevor White on Creating Worlds in Eternity and Reviving the RomCom

    Now in theaters, Eternity tells the story of an afterlife where souls have one week to decide where to spend eternity—and the options are infinite and sometimes hilarious. When the […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • November 28, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Zootopia 2 Brings Fresh Ideas and Familiar Animals to a Crime Caper With Multiple Moving Parts

    I had to recheck my notes to fully grasp that it’s been almost 10 years since the original, wildly successful Zootopia hit theaters. But now, two of its original directors […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • November 28, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Interview: Japanese Filmmaker Hikari on the Real Companies Renting Friends, Mourners and More That Inspired New Film Rental Family

    In her new film, Rental Family, the filmmaker known as Hikari traces the isolated life of American actor Phillip (Brendan Fraser, in his first lead role since his Best Leading […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • November 28, 2025
    • Review , Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: A More Dickensian Approach to A Christmas Carol for the Goodman Theatre’s Centennial

    Several versions of A Christmas Carol are familiar on television, in the movies, and, specifically, live at the Goodman Theatre. It’s a start to the holiday season in Chicago, usually coinciding […]

  • Kathy D. Hey
  • November 28, 2025
    • Event , Food , Lit , Recipes

    Dialogs: Samin Nosrat Delivers a Call to Culinary Community Building in Chicago Humanities Event

    When I opened chef Samin Nosrat‘s newest book, Good Things, it was clear that the cultural phenom born with her first project, Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat, was here to stay. […]

  • Row Light
  • November 28, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: Quirky Characters Spotlight the Fun in Much Ado About Nothing at Chicago Shakespeare Theater

    She hates him. He loatheItss her. “The course of true love never did run smooth.” Wait, that is A Midsummer Night’s Dream, but in any case, it’s a Shakespearean theme […]

  • Kathy D. Hey
  • November 26, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: Make Room for Boswell, a Lively History Tale on Stage in Milwaukee

    While many Third Coast Review readers may be absorbing the latest Ken Burns’ TV documentary about the American Revolution, I imagine that few are thinking about events happening on the […]

  • Anne Siegel
  • November 26, 2025
    • Dance , Review , Stages , Theater

    Preview: Tchaikovsky and Ellington Duke It Out in a Family Friendly Nutcracker at the Music Institute of Chicago

    The 2025 holiday season is upon us, and there are delightful entertainments for everyone. Duke It Out is a face-off between Duke Ellington and Pyotr Tchaikovsky of The Nutcracker Suite. […]

  • Kathy D. Hey
  • November 26, 2025
    • Music , Reviews

    Review: The Heartbeat of the Drone—Scottish Piper Brighde Chaimbeul

    Two middle-aged men were waiting for the doors to open. “How did you find out about her?” we asked. One of them said he read an article in the New […]

  • June Sawyers
  • November 25, 2025
    • Food , Lit , Nonfiction , Reviews

    An Ode to Thanksgiving’s Most Treasured Dessert with Pie: A Global History

    If you want to wow during the dessert course this Thanksgiving, don’t bother with the baking; all you’ll need is a stop at The University of Chicago Press for a […]

  • Caroline Huftalen
  • November 25, 2025
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