Last Day: Donate Today to #SaveChicagoMedia
Today is the last day of the first campaign to #SaveChicagoMedia by the newly formed Chicago Independent Media Alliance (CIMA). You can donate until midnight tonight—Friday, June 5. We’ve told […]
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.
Preview: Chicago Needs Indie Media on Facebook Live
Reader publisher and Windy City Times owner Tracy Baim and CIMA Partnerships Coordinator Yazmin Dominguez discuss why independent, local media is essential to a fair media landscape in Chicago with Chicago Public Square‘s […]
Preview: Artists and Curators to Discuss What’s Next for Public Art on June 3
NOTE: This event is being postponed and a new date will be announced later. What does public art mean without a public? In this era of social distancing, the notion […]
Playtime Radio: We Meet the Q Brothers and Many More Musicians
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 […]
Artist Maxwell Emcays Explores Race and Class Issues in Meaning of Home in Virtual Art Exhibit
Chicago artist Maxwell Emcays makes a powerful statement with his exhibit, Let Them Stay Home, in his new virtual art gallery. The exhibit features enhanced photographs of neglected homes on […]
Help Us #SaveChicagoMedia: We Need Community and Special Media More Than Ever
Dear Third Coast Review readers: We told you recently how we’re working with 42 other Chicago independent media to help our website and our colleagues survive during this pandemic. Revenue […]
Review: Pride Live Reading Series Features Steven Dietz’ Lonely Planet, a Play About Chairs
Pride Films and Plays continues its series of live streamed play readings with a two-hander about chairs and many symbols of a plague. Lonely Planet, by the prolific playwright, Steven […]
Virtual Travel, Virtual Theater: Irish Rep Streams Moving Production of Friel’s Molly Sweeney
When I’m in New York, I always make it a point to see the current production at Irish Repertory Theatre in the Chelsea neighborhood, one of the best off-Broadway […]
Playtime Radio: Fundraising for Red Noses and Theater Workers plus Mean Mary
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 […]
Third Coast Review Joins Chicago’s Independent Media in Launching Support Campaign
Chicago has a huge array of independent media outlets—from neighborhood to suburban and specialized news and features in print, broadcast and online forms. We all are contributing to Chicago’s news […]
Playtime Radio: We Talk Politics, Music, Photography
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 […]
Real or Virtual? We Need Live Theater but Theater on My Sofa Has a Future Too
Just before a play begins, the house lights dim and we take a collective breath of anticipation. That shared experience continues throughout the production, including laughs, groans and tears. But […]