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.
State Sen. Daniel Biss has launched television ads for his campaign for the Democratic nomination for Illinois governor. The first two ads–“Personal” and “Honework”–introduce the candidate as a middle-class community […]
A meeting to allow community members to provide feedback on Chicago Public Schools’ plan to close four high schools (Harper, Hope, Robeson and TEAM Englewood) quickly became an angry shouting […]
Black Button Eyes’ darkly gothic production of Nevermore: The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe makes good use of the Edge Theatre’s spacious proscenium stage. The six performers […]
It’s the late 1950s on the upper West side of Manhattan. Midge Maisel (Rachel Brosnahan) is a well-dressed, well-educated woman with a husband, two preschool children and a gorgeous apartment. […]
The old Morton Salt Warehouse at 1329 N. Elston, highly visible from the Kennedy Expressway, will be converted into a multiuse center that will include retail, restaurants, entertainment and offices. […]
The Divvy bike-sharing program had a big year in 2017, with riders biking 7.3 million miles in 3.8 million trips. More than 37,000 annual members joined, up from 33,000 in […]
The Chicago History Museum is processing about 35,000 nitrate negatives of images taken over the past 200 years. The images will be available online as part of the museum’s collection […]
Federal judge Jorge Alonso has ruled against forcing Palatine High School District 211 to stop allowing transgender students to use the bathrooms and locker rooms of their choice. An Arizona-based attorney […]
Eataly displayed several promotional posters on its windows, which employed double entendres to market its products. The Italian community says it’s offended by language such as, “Bring home an Italian, worth […]
Tax returns released by Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and analyzed by the Chicago Tribune show that the mayor makes about $365,000 per year. In his first six years in office, […]
With the ringing in of the new year comes a new set of laws that took effect on Monday. Some 215 new laws are on the books now, including expanded […]
With still more than 11 months to go until the 2018 gubernatorial election, candidates in the race have already raised more than $124 million collectively. Governor Bruce Rauner leads the […]