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Nancy S Bishop

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Preview, Stages

Chicago Arts Organizations to Host Virtual Retreat for Performers, Administrators April 8

Several Chicago arts organizations are creating a Chicago Performing Arts Virtual Retreat on Wednesday, April 8, from 10:30am to 2pm. The purpose: to bring together performers and administrators to address […]

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Essays, Lit

What to Read Now: Three Books About Plagues

It’s the year of the big virus. We’ve had two weeks of #StayTheFHome or sheltering in place, depending on where you live. And in some states, you’re not doing that. […]

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Stages

For Kids: Create a 5-Minute Video for Chicago Children’s Theatre Play@Home Contest

Chicago Children’s Theatre has launched a Play@Home Contest for school children stuck at home to get creative and make their own 5-minute videos and enter them in CCT’s contest. The […]

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Stages, Theater

Preview: Theater Wit to Livestream Video of Teenage Dick, as Richard III Goes to High School

Theater Wit in the Belmont theater district is keeping theater alive during the coronavirus shutdown. Live via a livestreamed video that you can view at home on Vimeo. The play […]

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Stages, Theater

Review: The Tennessee Williams Play You Never Heard of Brought to Life by Theatre L’Acadie

It’s always a treat to see a Tennessee Williams play, whether it’s a familiar story like The Glass Menagerie, or a rarely performed play like Not About Nightingales. Theatre L’Acadie […]

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Audio

Playtime Radio: A Menu of Politics, Art and Jazz

Here’s this week’s podcast for Playtime with Bill Turck and Kerri Kendall, our radio arts partner. Third Coast Review news and reviews are highlighted and our writers sometimes appear on the […]

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Stages, Theater

Review: What the Constitution Means to Me Sheds Light on the Penumbra of Law and the Lives of Women

What the Constitution Means to Me is partly a lesson in the glories of the 14th Amendment and partly the personal story of domestic abuse against women by the men […]

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Giveaway, Stages, Theater

Review: Help! The Help Has Disappeared in Congo Square’s “Satirical Fantasy,” Day of Absence

The playwright conceived it as a reverse minstrel show, with black actors playing in whiteface. But Douglas Turner Ward’s Day of Absence is a lot more. As staged by Congo […]

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Stages, Theater

Review: Tuta Theatre’s Hedda Gabler Explodes the Classic Drama with Live Music and Stylized Staging

Hedda and Nora. The strong female characters in Henrik Ibsen’s two well-known plays—A Doll’s House (currently on stage at Raven Theatre) and Hedda Gabler—established him as a modern playwright of […]

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Audio

Playtime Radio: Which Candidate Will Be Best for the Arts? We Discuss

Here’s this week’s podcast for Playtime with Bill Turck and Kerri Kendall, our radio arts partner. Third Coast Review news and reviews are highlighted and our writers sometimes appear on the […]

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Stages, Theater

Review: Dex & Abby–Two Dogs, Two Dads and Their Love Stories

Yes, this is a play about dogs—dogs portrayed by human actors. And they’re not wearing cutesy animal outfits. They are in fact talented actors who have learned the ways of […]

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Stages, Theater

Review: Timeline’s Kill Move Paradise Strands Four Souls in a Skate Park Purgatory

Four men, by turn, tumble onto the scene, thrust, thrown, exploded onto the slick black-and-white skateboard ramp of a set.  All is black and white—costumes and set—until the fourth arrives. […]

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