When Michael Longfellow joined the cast of Saturday Night Live in 2022, his dry, sharp wit earned immediate comparisons to legends like Norm MacDonald and Bill Hader. Best remembered for […]

When Elizabeth Messick, the more attractive half of the magical duo the Cosmic Romantics—that’s straight out of her partner Eric Thirstin’s introduction, not my own editorializing—first appears on stage during […]

Now through December 22, one small corner of the Den Theatre, that bustling venue in Wicker Park, is home to Charles Dickens Begrudgingly Performs ‘A Christmas Carol’ Again, a cumbersome […]

Stage Shorts is our new column for Third Coast Review. It’s our way of covering more of Chicago’s fabulous storefront theaters and giving you more choices in the plays you […]