Doug Mose grew up on a farm in western Illinois, and moved to the big city to go to grad school. He lives with his husband Jim in Printers Row. When he’s not writing for Third Coast Review, Doug works as a business writer.
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This review offers some tough love. Love for Kokandy Productions, for its ambitions and scope, for its actors and musicians. But I’m also going to add a tough critique for […]
Something very wonderful is on stage at the Studebaker Theater this pre-Halloween weekend. A haunting affair, one part horror and another strange beauty, the Chicago-based Emmy-award-winning performance collective Manual Cinema […]
Billy Wilder’s 1959 Some Like It Hot is widely considered a perfect film: witty and surprising, silly and sexy—a culmination of Wilder’s brilliant career and a showcase for its stars […]
Sorting hats! Quidditch brooms! Wand duels! Dementors! We’re in the midst of the spooky season and over at the Nederlander Theatre they are brewing up the perfect potion: the launch […]
Can you hear it? That finely tuned purr? It’s not the sound of a Rolls-Royce or Jaguar in the garage—but instead that other pinnacle of British engineering, Michael Frayn’s classic […]
“Who cares if a bunch of faggots die?” Larry Kramer did. And, more than 40 years ago, that’s what caused him to write that caustic question in his remarkable play […]
It took J.R.R. Tolkien three books, 62 chapters and more than a half-million words to tell his legendary story of Frodo Baggins and the quest to save Middle Earth. Adapted […]
This is a love letter. To Stephen Trask’s brilliant music and lyrics and John Cameron Mitchell’s searing wit. To one of the best musicals to ever come out of New […]
The new and eagerly awaited production of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil at Goodman Theatre fails to present a unified story and collapses under its own weight […]
The new production of On the Twentieth Century by Blank Theatre Company, directed by Danny Kapinos, is the latest incarnation of many fabulous versions of this story—on stage and screen. […]
We review two shows now running in Chicago’s storefront theater scene. Did you know that Chicago has more than 200 theater companies, many of them small and performing in storefronts […]