Review: Women at Risk in Space in Babes With Blades’ Feminist Epic, Women of 4G
Women of 4G is a brave sci-fi story set in the year 2094 as the female members of a space crew take over the operation of their ship when the male […]
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 Bluesky at @nancyb.bsky.social. She also writes about film, books, art, architecture and design.
On the Road: At the National Black Theatre Festival in North Carolina
A moving conversation between Anne (Frank) and Emmett (Till), somewhere in memory. A rousing concert tribute to soul music. A production of a Pulitzer Prize drama by Lynn Nottage. Two […]
Playtime Radio: Talk About Queer Art, Blues, Comedy, Museums and More
Third Coast Review is collaborating with Playtime with Bill Turck and Kerri Kendall. We appear on their Sunday afternoon arts radio show once or twice a month. They’re on WCGO, […]
Playtime Radio: Talk About Art, Books, Politics, Music and Magic
Third Coast Review is collaborating with Playtime with Bill Turck and Kerri Kendall. We appear on their Sunday afternoon arts radio show once or twice a month. They’re on WCGO, […]
SURVEY: Tell Us What You Think
We’d love to thank all of our subscribers and readers at Third Coast Review for continuing to turn to us for great Arts and Culture coverage! You’re the reason we’re […]
Review: Haven’s Kiss Threads the Needle Between Soap Opera and Wartime
Images on the television screen. No sound. We’re in a living room in Damascus in 2014. Four people gather to watch their favorite soap opera. (Syrians love telenovelas.) The two […]
Review: Magical Wolf Play at Gift Theatre Will Make You Think and Break Your Heart
It sounds like a sad story. A couple adopts a child from another country, then decides “it’s not a good fit” and decides to un-adopt him. But if I tell […]
Review: Roast, It’s the Comrades’ Idea for Your Funeral Planning
Roast is a world premiere and a credible first play by Northwestern alum Harry Wood, produced by the Comrades. It’s often funny and occasionally poignant, even though the structure of […]
Review: Pomona at Steep Theatre Tells a Sci-Fi Horror Story
Zeppo (Peter Moore) is driving around the ring road in Manchester, eating Chicken McNuggets (he buys ’em by the hundred) and reeling off the entire plot of Raiders of the […]
Viewpoint: Art and Politics Tangle Around the Irish Troubles … in Books, on Stage and Screen
The Irish are known for their devotion to language and their love of talking. In his one-man show, On Beckett, multitalented artist Bill Irwin pays homage to the Irish playwright […]
Review: Ensemble-Made Chicago Lets Us Peek Into Some of Chicago’s Most Inventive Theaters
Chicago is home to 200 to 250 theater companies, depending on who’s counting. Most of them are what we might call traditional theaters that stage scripted productions, both new works […]
Review: Ada and the Engine at the Artistic Home Weaves a Love Story of Poetry, Music and Technology
Ada and the Engine at the Artistic Home is a magical play about poetry and technology, tinged with tragedy. Ada Byron Lovelace was the daughter of the famous poet, a man […]