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.
Despite fierce opposition from parents, teachers and students, the CPS Board of Education voted yesterday to close the last four neighborhood high schools in Englewood. The schools to be closed […]
Candidate J.B. Pritzker is spending about $171,000 per day from his $3.6 billion fortune to try to win the governor’s job, which pays $177,412 a year. Pritzker ran his first […]
The Black Ensemble Theater has a new musical story on stage, a tribute to the late great guitarist Chuck Berry, who died a year ago. Hail Hail Chuck: A Tribute […]
Keith Huff’s Six Corners, the world premiere now at American Blues Theater, is quintessentially Chicago. It’s the story of a pair of shady cops, not always on the up and […]
Two Chicago newspapers have endorsed candidates in the Democratic gubernatorial race. The Tribune has endorsed Chris Kennedy and Crain’s Chicago Business has endorsed J.B. Pritzker. The Tribune, Crain’s and the […]
The Printer’s Devil explained. The symbol of the printer’s devil reflects my love for the printed word. A printer’s devil in history was thought to be a pesky demon that, when the printer […]
Theater review. Philip Dawkins’ new play, The Burn, blends today’s online world with Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. The real life “mean girls” in The Burn are distant cousins of the […]
Democratic lawmakers demanded Tuesday that an investigator outside the House Speaker’s office do a deep dive into sexual harassment and abuse cases under Madigan’s watch. Former campaign director Kevin Quinn […]
Breach: a manifesto on race in america through the eyes of a black girl recovering from self-hate is a world premiere at Victory Gardens Theater. The play’s long title might […]
Fear and Misery in the Third Reich can be described as Bertolt Brecht’s ghost arriving to warn us about the United States of Donald Trump turning into a fascist dictatorship. […]
Chicago’s longest-running fringe festival, the annual Rhinoceros Theater Festival, now in its 29th year, is presenting shows six nights a week through February 25. Rhinofest is produced by Prop Thtr […]
Chicago’s slow-to-recover housing market might make it look good to Amazon in its search for its HQ2 site, says Crain’s real estate specialist, Dennis Rodkin. Chicago not only has lower […]