Nancy S. Bishop is publisher and Stages editor of Third Coast Review. She’s a member of the American Theatre Critics Association and a 2014 Fellow of the National Critics Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. You can read her personal writing on pop culture at nancybishopsjournal.com, and follow her on Twitter @nsbishop. She also writes about film, books, art, architecture and design.
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Tuesday, November 12, was an exciting day—it was Oscars night for book nerds. That was the day the Booker Prize, the most prestigious literary prize in the world, was awarded. […]
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A pair of poets, in love with words, are sort of, possibly, in love with each other. Or not. That’s the theme of Dear Elizabeth, an epistolary play by Sarah Ruhl. […]
Sarah Ruhl’s play, Becky Nurse of Salem, is a history lesson and a feminist reminder for 2024. The play being staged by Shattered Globe Theatre stars Chicago actor Linda Reiter […]
I have to admit I didn’t know how to begin this review or how to describe the film Daaaaaali! It’s not a biopic about the Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dali. Director Quentin Dupieux says […]
“Tell me a story.” That line is repeated by cast members in the prologue to Alabama Story, a play about a book for children 3 to 7. Set in Montgomery, Alabama, […]
Darja is an all-American woman. She may be a Polish immigrant, escaping the wars and politics of her native land. But she has all the problems of her born-in-the-USA sisters. She […]
Inherit the Wind at Goodman Theatre has no flashy costumes or rapid costume changes, no chorus or dance squad. It’s simply two hours of enthralling courtroom drama with lacerating wit about […]
Steep Theatre’s world premiere play, Happy Days Are Here (Again) replays a familiar story (sexual abuse in the Catholic Church) and introduces a new one (a Palestinian adapting to American teen life) […]
The poetic title of Rebeca Aleman’s play, The Delicate Tears of the Waning Moon, may delude you into thinking her play is a sweet love story. But don’t expect a romcom […]
The State of Illinois has announced a contest to gather designs for a new state flag. Design submissions are due by October 18. This is a horrendously bad idea. Unless one of […]