EU Film Fest: The Final Week
The Chicago European Union Film Festival concludes this week, so if you love watching films with subtitles, this is your chance. See some of the best of European films at […]
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.
The Shoulda Been Candidate
While the Republicans were playing clown car with 17 candidates on the debate stage, the Democrats had three. And the best one—I believe the most electable one—never got any traction, […]
Going Beyond Beyond
When we launched Third Coast Review in January, we defined the Beyond page this way: We’ll go Beyond. Our focus will clearly be Chicago but occasionally—because of travel or whim—we’ll report […]
EU Film Fest: Films We Watched for You, March 18-24
The Chicago European Union Film Festival continues through the end of March at the Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State St. See Colin Smith’s preview. Each week, we’ll provide brief […]
Lookingglass Production Diminishes the Power of Lorca’s Blood Wedding
Lookingglass Theatre’s new production of Blood Wedding by Federico Garcia Lorca, directed by Daniel Ostling, is set in the American Dust Bowl of the 1930s. Lorca’s simple and poetic […]
Euro Union Film Fest: Films We Like for the Week of March 11-17
The Chicago European Union Film Festival runs through the end of March at the Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State St. See Colin Smith’s preview. Each week, we’ll provide brief […]
Irish Theatre’s Little World Is a Tightly Wound Political Thriller
In a Little World of Our Own is a benign name for a tightly wound thriller that spins out of control in 80 minutes. The Irish Theatre’s new production of […]
Euro Union Film Fest: Recaps Week of March 4-11
The Chicago European Union Film Festival just opened and runs through the end of March at the Gene Siskel Film Center. See Colin Smith’s preview. Each week, we’ll provide brief […]
New Country’s Music City Story Is Raucous Comedy With a Heart
New Country at the Den Theatre is great entertainment before or after a dinner at one of Wicker Park’s many Milwaukee Avenue restaurants. It’s a short, snappy comedy with […]
Raven Theatre’s A Loss of Roses: Quiet Portrait of 1933 Small-Town America
William Inge’s A Loss of Roses at Raven Theatre explores the lives of three people in a small Kansas town in Depression-era 1933. The play, directed by Cody Estle, […]
Goodman Takes on Bolaño’s 2666: It’s Extreme Theater and a Beautiful Mess
The Goodman Theatre’s new production of 2666, adapted from the massive novel by the late Roberto Bolaño, takes five stories and threads them loosely together with a couple of mysteries […]
The Flick at Steppenwolf: Reel Love Becomes Real Life in a Rundown Movie Theater
Annie Baker’s Pulitzer-winning script for The Flick, newly opened at Steppenwolf Theatre, gives us a chance to get to know three people, underpaid workers in a movie theater in Worcester […]