Tracy Letts’ 2008 play Superior Donuts is a story about friendship between two unlikely souls—with a good dose of violence added. The story is set in an Uptown donut shop […]
One of the things I love most about humanity is that there are so many paths in tune with spiritual matters. I am not talking about religion. I am thinking […]
This article was written by Wendy Davis. The powerful, energized, girl-powered quartet The Aces has returned to Chicago stronger than ever! Playing at the historic Thalia Hall, this band has […]
Quick Spins takes a quick look at recently released albums to make certain you’re listening to all the quality music being released these days. And with today being Bandcamp Friday, […]
Writer/director Guillermo del Toro has had a vision for his telling of author Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein for a couple of decades—not just the makeup and production design but also what […]
Sometimes you read history, and other times you have history read to you. And the new film from writer/director James Vanderbilt (the established writer and producer whose only other directing […]
At this point, it should become the law of the land that filmmaker Dan Trachtenberg (10 Cloverfield Lane) is the only one allowed to make Predator sequels. With the streaming-only […]
The Lyric Opera of Chicago gives us a fall doubleheader with two classic Italian operas rooted in the verismo tradition. Pietro Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana (1890) and Ruggero Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci (1892) […]
This is the first in a series of articles spotlighting some of Chicago’s finest and funniest comedians worth watching. Though Laura Hugg has always loved comedy, it took many years […]
Winner of the 2025 Palme d’Or, Cannes Film Festival’s top honor, It Was Just an Accident is the latest from Iranian writer/director Jafar Panahi (who previously won the award for […]
Welcome to the sixth installment of Third Coast Review’s Featured Creatures, in which we ask Midwestern horror authors to recommend writers, artists, musicians, and stories that deserve more attention. Find […]
Horror authors are often asked where they get all their wonderful, horrible ideas, but rarely why they get them. Librarian Becky Siegel Spratford wondered about this herself. Since 2007, she’s […]