Review: Just Can’t Stop The English Beat
Birmingham-born band The English Beat shows staying power with its current US tour. Dave Wakeling co-founded the ska sextet in 1979. They opened for seminal acts such as Talking Heads, […]
Get Out the Vote with Fight Night at Chicago Shakes
Belgium’s Ontroerend Goed (“Good Moving”) has a distinct outside vantage point to dissect the fraught American electoral system. Their limited run of Fight Night at Chicago Shakespeare is required viewing for […]
GALLERY: Night of 1,000 Jack O’ Lanterns at Chicago Botanic Another Sellout Success
A stroll through the Chicago Botanic Garden is a treat in every season. Whether it’s spring flowers, a freshly fallen snow or cherry blossoms in the Japanese garden, Wonderland Express […]
A Conversation with Mallrat & Maggie Rogers’ Final Stop Before SNL
At 5:15pm on Tuesday, October 30, there was already a line forming outside of The Riviera — where Mallrat and Maggie Rogers would be playing that night, having sold out […]
The Fallout 76 B.E.T.A. Deletes PC Players’ Preloads as Launcher Catastrophically Fails
Today I was hoping to have up my initial impressions of the B.E.T.A. of Fallout 76–a sort of first look that Bethesda promised would be full of bugs. Well, they […]
Review: As Remakes Go, a New Suspiria is Ambitious, Thrilling and Sometimes Hard to Watch
The reason I’ve never been on the front lines of calling for a ban on remakes in the film world is because sometimes a director manages to take the remake […]
Album Review: Rich Jones Steps into a New Direction with The Shoulder You Lean On
A little over a year ago, Rich Jones was onstage at North Coast Music Festival performing amazing track after amazing track. Along with a cavalcade of local artists and friends, […]
Silence Is Worth a Thousand Words in Small Mouth Sounds at A Red Orchid Theatre
In the madness of our daily lives, we may wish that we could abandon our devices and spend a week meditating in the woods and getting high on nature. We […]
Review: Bohemian Rhapsody Gets a Lot Right, But Isn’t the Whole Queen Story
Whether or not you enjoy Bohemian Rhapsody, the biography film of the band Queen, will likely depend on what kind of movie you’re in the mood to see when you […]
3CR News: We’re Adding Stars to Third Coast Reviews
Third Coast Review is initiating a rating system for our arts reviews. Starting later this week, our reviews of films, plays, games, albums and more will carry ratings of zero […]
Review: Florence + the Machine Stunned Chicago with an Amazing Performance
There are few times were a concert will leave me speechless, lost entirely in its presentation that I need time to recoup. Such was the case with the Florence + […]
Review: Run, Don’t Walk, to See E. Faye Butler in Porchlight Music Theatre’s Gypsy
There’s this gem of a theater in Chicago’s Gold Coast neighborhood, and it’s keeping a little secret: the best musical theater productions in the city. Broadway touring companies aside, Porchlight […]