Your Chicago Curated Weekend: 1/10 – 1/13
The cooler temps finally hit us this week and never did I think 20 degree weather would feel this cold. Not matter how glum this development may make you, it shouldn’t stop […]
Now You Can Support Third Coast Review on Patreon
For the first time in the two-year history of Third Coast Review, we’re asking for your help. We’re inviting our readers to help our website grow into a dynamic news source for […]
Review: St. Nicholas Chillingly Blends Conor McPherson’s Storytelling and Brendan Coyle’s Acting
Conor McPherson is a storyteller. That was his first love and he’s a master of the form, in the Irish storytelling tradition. Many of his early plays were monologue plays or built […]
J.B. Pritzker Sworn in as Governor of Illinois
New Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker pledged Democrats and Republicans would work together to pass a balanced budget this year as he took the oath of office on Monday at a ceremony in […]
Review: Dover Quartet Opens the Annual Northwestern Winter Chamber Festival in a Big Way
The Dover Quartet opened the 2019 installment of the Northwestern Winter Chamber Music Festival in a fantastic way on Friday evening with compelling performances of classical and contemporary string quartets by Tchaikovsky, […]
The Printer’s Devil Asks: What’s a Neighborhood? Right now, Lincoln Yards Is Not.
We don’t have to look far for a definition of a neighborhood. Jane Jacobs, the famous architecture writer who faced down Robert Moses’ efforts to demolish part of Greenwich Village to build […]
Review: El Angel Chronicles a Charming, Disturbing Killer in 1970s Argentina
True crime stories are big business. Since the success of the blockbuster podcast Serial, seemingly every producer, writer and director in any medium is looking for the next big crime story to […]
Review: The Leopold and Loeb Files: An Intimate Look at One of America’s Most Infamous Crimes
Chicago has had its share of dynamic duos: Adler and Sullivan, Jordan and Pippen, Bozo and Cooky, Moo and Oink… Less dynamic and more demonic were Chicago killers Nathan Leopold and Richard […]
Review: Nicole Kidman Transforms in Karen Kusama’s Destroyer
Nicole Kidman is having quite a moment. She started 2018 on a high note, with Emmy wins for her contributions to the HBO series “Big Little Lies,” and just kept the momentum […]
Review: ANCHR Magazine Celebrates Second Birthday at Schubas
When OHMME’s Sima Cunningham and Macie Stewart joined V.V. Lightbody on stage at Schubas last week, 2019 officially started. The Friday night was atypically mild and warm for a Chicago winter, and […]
Review: Raks Inferno is a Lot of Fiery Passion in an Intimate Space
If you’ve been around the performing arts scene in Chicago enough, you might have heard tales of a bellydancing Wookiee. We certainly had, and found ourselves mesmerized by the fun and talent […]
Review: Two Sharp Performances Create Comedy Magic in Stan & Ollie
In an odd sort of way, Stan & Ollie, a film that covers the later-period career of film stars Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, suffers from some of the same shortcomings as Bohemian Rhapsody, […]
Review: One Man’s Struggle With Sexual Identity in The Sunday Sessions
What I thought might be a documentary companion piece to last year’s thought-provoking Boy Erased, about the abhorrent practice of teen gay conversion therapy, turns out to be a wholly different but not […]
Review: The House That Jack Built Is A Character Study Sans Morality
As often as writer-director Lars von Trier has made films about despicable people, there has almost always existed a kind of twisted morality about each of them that made even their worst […]
