Review: American Framing Highlights Trio of New Exhibits at Wrightwood 659
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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.
Review: In Red Orchid’s Tense Last Hermanos, Two Brothers Are Desperate to Escape Across the Border
Last Hermanos by Exal Iraheta is a play about two brothers, set at some time now or in the recent past or near future, in an abandoned visitor center in a […]
Review: Shana Cooper’s Direction Adds Zest to All’s Well That Ends Well at Chicago Shakespeare
Helen is a bright, attractive young woman, but, sad to say, she’s not royal. So Bertram/Count of Rossillion, the man she loves for reasons not clear, scorns her. The daughter […]
Dispatch: Chicago Latino Film Festival Offers Exceptional Films from Latin America through May 1
Since 1985, Chicago’s International Latino Cultural Center has presented the annual Chicago Latino Film Festival, featuring a diverse and entertaining selection of feature-length and short films from across Latin America. […]
Preview: Joffrey Ballet to Premiere New Work Adapted from Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men
The Joffrey Ballet’s spring program will combine an iconic John Steinbeck story transformed into a modern ballet with Serenade, a classic George Balanchine ballet first performed in the 1930s. The program […]
Review: The Business of Beauty at the Art Institute Displays William Morris’ Genius in Home Textiles and Design
“Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.” English textile designer William Morris said in 1880. The statement represented his […]
Review: A Surprising Team of Workers Tries to Save The Rose Maker From Corporate Greed
Eve Vertel (Catherine Frôt) is an artisanal rose breeder who inherited her father’s business and is trying to keep it alive in a world of flowers dominated (like most industries) […]
Review: At Victory Gardens Theater, In Every Generation Focuses on Family, Faith and Sisterly Arguments
A family’s Passover seder table at several time periods is the center of In Every Generation, a play about family, faith and history. Victory Gardens Theater is staging this world premiere […]
Review: Molly Sweeney at Irish Theatre Examines the Difference Between Seeing and Understanding
Molly Sweeney is an independent middle-aged woman who lives in Donegal. She has a job, a husband, friends, social activities, and she loves to swim in the sea. She has […]
Review: A Lively and Meticulous Biography of Rebel Theater Artist Emily Mann, by Alexis Greene
Emily Mann: Rebel Artist of the American Theater By Alexis Greene Applause Theatre and Cinema Books If B for Biography equals B for Boring to you, I suggest you adjust […]
Feature: Houses of Tomorrow Exhibit Explores Solar Design From the 1930s to Today
When the Homes of Tomorrow exhibit opened at Chicago’s 1933 Century of Progress, George Fred Keck’s design for a solar-powered glass house was a radical move into the future. Today, […]
Review: At Steppenwolf Theatre, King James Is All About Friendship, Heartbreak and Basketball
It seems like it’s all about basketball but it really isn’t—until it finally is. King James, the wickedly funny world premiere play by Rajiv Joseph, is on stage at Steppenwolf […]