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Emma Terhaar

ARTICLES: 67
Beyond, Front page, Stages

Meet the 3CR Staff: Nancy Bishop, Editor in Chief and Theater Critic

chess pavilion, lincoln park, nancy bishop

“When I was in high school we came here. I was in a girl gang at Steinmetz High School, and I was the only one who drove, so four or […]

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Review, Stages, Theater

An Enemy of the People Is a Well-Dressed Meditation on Politics and Human Nature

When I described the synopsis of Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People to my date, he groaned. Politics, environmental crisis, public figures and large companies taking advantage of the little guy… […]

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Beyond, Music

Meet the 3CR Staff: Sarah Brooks, Music Editor

the Hideout, Sarah Brooks, Chicago

This is the first post in a series of interviews of Third Coast staffers conducted by Third Coast Staffers. In this interview, Emma Terhaar talks to music section editor Sarah […]

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Stages, Theater

Goodman’s A Christmas Carol Carries On Great Chicago Tradition for 40th Year

Goodman Theatre, A Christmas Carol, Ghost of Christmas Present

The Christkindlmarket has opened, the first weekend of Zoolights has come and gone, the Songs of Good Cheer holiday sing-along shows start at Old Town School of Folk Music next […]

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Stages, Theater

An Evening at the Talkhouse Is an Unnerving and Timely Must-See at A Red Orchid Theatre

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A Red Orchid Theatre’s latest show An Evening at the Talkhouse is my kind of production. It’s a darkly funny one-act play running around 100 minutes. It’s funny in a […]

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Audio, Music

TCR Mixtape No. 33: Kalamazoo Weekend

This mixtape was composed in tandem by Colin Smith and Emma Terhaar. Can two people work together to make one playlist? Has the broth been spoiled? Please let us know […]

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Music, Reviews

Conor Oberst and Phoebe Bridgers Play a Crowdpleaser at the Vic

Conor Oberst, Felice Brothers

Conor Oberst was everyone’s favorite sad boy in high school. High school ended (praise Jesus!), but Conor Oberst has not stopped making music. He played a packed show at the […]

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Music, Reviews

Ben Sollee and Kentucky Native Bring Bluegrass Thrills to Schubas

Ben Sollee and Kentucky Native

Cellist Ben Sollee and his band Kentucky Native performed what felt like a love letter to the state of Kentucky on Tuesday (9/12) at Schuba’s. They played songs from their […]

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Lit, Reviews, Uncategorized

Chicago’s Literati Harmonize in Rust Belt Chicago: An Anthology

Have you ever contributed to a church or neighborhood cookbook? Have you ever bought one? Are matriarchal communities still pooling their creativity into volumes of recipes as a testament to […]

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Comedy, Stages, Theater

Neo-Futurists Close Out Another Hilarious Season of It Came from the Neo-Futurarium

Corrbette Pasko

Last Saturday I had the rare treat of seeing a staged reading of the 1975 made-for-TV film “Someone I Touched” at the Neo-Futurarium in Andersonville. The original film (I say […]

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Lit, Live lit events, Reviews

Roxane Gay, Camille Paglia and Jessa Crispin at War in My Head

Jessa Crispin, book

Several weeks ago, I went to hear Roxane Gay read from her latest book Hunger as a part of the Chicago Humanities Festival Now summer programming. The event fell on […]

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Stages, Theater

Pass Over Reworks Waiting for Godot in an Exploration of Racial Oppression

Steppenwolf, Pass Over

Have you heard about Pass Over? It’s a play written by Antoinette Nwandu reworking Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot that opened at Steppenwolf Theatre last week. Pass Over uses the structure of absurdist theater to explore […]

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