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Review: Gin Blossoms Are “On It” at Rivers Casino

by Anthony Cusumano
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Review: Grant Park Music Festival Celebrates Juneteenth with Leah Dexter and Christopher Guzman

by Louis Harris
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Review: Olivia Wilde Returns to the Director’s Chair for The Invite, a Cringe-y yet Still Captivating Chamber Piece

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Review: Pixar Does It Again with Toy Story 5, Bringing the Franchise into the Digital Age

by Steve Prokopy
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Review: Lookingglass Theatre’s Untitled Vampire Play Amuses and Charms

by Lauren Katz
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Jordan Arredondo (Dom) & Courtney Ricki Green (Val). Photo by Justin Barbin
Jordan Arredondo (Dom) & Courtney Ricki Green (Val). Photo by Justin Barbin
Alex Soare, Tracy Cantin, Jordan Loyd, and Schyler Vargas. Photo by Tom McGrath
  • Blues , Classical , Music , Pop , Reviews

Review: Chicago Opera Theater Performs the Music of Immigrant Composers in a Rousing In America’s Embrace

This year marks the 250th anniversary of the United States of America’s declaration as a sovereign democracy. The Declaration of Independence guaranteed the citizenry the right to life, liberty, and […]

  • Kathy D. Hey
  • January 22, 2026
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    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 […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • January 22, 2026
    • Front page

    Your Chicago Curated Weekend: 1/22 and Beyond

    It’s going to be an extremely cold weekend ahead of us with temperatures dipping well below zero! So while there are plenty of events going on (like the start of […]

  • Julian Ramirez
  • January 22, 2026
    • Music , Previews

    Preview: Atmosphere Celebrate 30 Years with The Winter Carnival Tour

    Hard to believe that it’s been 30 years of the Minneapolis hip-hop duo Atmosphere. Composed of MC Slug and producer Ant, Atmosphere have dished out over a dozen albums, a […]

  • Julian Ramirez
  • January 21, 2026
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: German Drama Sound of Falling Depicts Generations of Women and the Traumas, Confusion and Struggles of Their Varied Lives

    Towards the end of any given year, I find myself with a long list of films I want to see before the calendar flips over and not enough time to […]

  • Lisa Trifone
  • January 21, 2026
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    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 […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • January 20, 2026
    • Classical , Festivals , Music , Reviews

    Review: Trio Seoul Wows the Audience at the Northwestern Winter Chamber Music Festival

    With an unbelievable combination of youthful exuberance and mature technique, Trio Seoul wowed a large audience at Pick-Staiger Concert Hall in Evanston on Sunday. They did it with a program […]

  • Louis Harris
  • January 20, 2026
    • Film & TV , Interview

    Interview: Filmmaker Ryan Prows on Making Night Patrol, Writing New Genre Rules and Crowning Justin Long as New Scream King

    I got back nearly 10 years with filmmaker Ryan Prows, whose 2017 debut film Lowlife is one of the most substantial calling-card movies I’ve seen in my years as a […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • January 19, 2026
    • Film , Film & TV , Interview

    Interview: Filmmaker Mona Fastvold on What Led Her to The Testament of Ann Lee, Casting Amanda Seyfried and Films About Furniture

    In recent years, Norwegian-born filmmaker Mona Fastvold has divided her time between co-writing her own films (The Sleepwalker) as well as those directed by her partner, Brady Corbet (The Brutalist, […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • January 19, 2026
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    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 […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • January 17, 2026
    • Music , Reviews

    Review: Almost Always Takes The Scenic Route and Makes It Last

    Frontman Kristopher Evans belts out the first lyric to “Run River,” the opening track off The Scenic Route, the debut EP of Chicago’s newest emo-laden pop punk outfit Almost Always, […]

  • Lorenzo Zenitsky
  • January 16, 2026
    • Beyond , Comedy , Review , Stages , Theater , Travel feature

    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 […]

  • Tory Crowley
  • January 16, 2026
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