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Feature: The National Hellenic Museum Treats Us to Their Annual Lesson in Legal History and Personal Drama with The Trial of Themistocles

Themistocles was a military hero and a political leader, born to a working-class family just outside Athens around 524 BCE. He rose to lead Athens in war and peace but […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • April 4, 2025
    • Feature , Film , Stages , Theater

    Feature: Collaboraction Theatre Recreates 1955 Mississippi Murder Trial in New Film, Trial in the Delta: The Murder of Emmett Till

    Collaboraction Theatre, which makes social change its mission, has created a powerful film based on the 1955 Mississippi murder of Chicago’s Emmett Till and the subsequent trial of two men […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • April 29, 2024
    • Beyond , Event , Feature , Review , Stages

    Feature: The Trial of Pericles Examines Subversion of the Law in a Democracy

    This week the Hellenic Museum presented its annual historic trial re-enactment. The Trial of Pericles: Hero or Tyrant? You Decide. was an imagined enactment of a trial for Pericles, the […]

  • Kathy D. Hey
  • April 20, 2024
    • Art & Museums , Event , Feature , Stages

    Feature: Socrates Found Not Guilty in the Trial of the Sesquibimillennium

    The People of Athens vs. Socrates, perhaps the most famous trial in history, took place in the year 399BCE. The great philosopher Socrates was charged with impiety (failing to acknowledge […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • May 24, 2023
    • Feature , Stages , Theater

    Essay: Divine Decadence—A Look Back at Porchlight’s I Am a Camera and Cabaret

    Cabaret has always been about pushing boundaries. But it also has a rich and complicated past. This month Porchlight Music Theatre at the Ruth Page Center for the Arts offered not only […]

  • June Sawyers
  • February 22, 2023
    • Feature , Stages

    Review: Immersive Flotsam and Jetsam, Karaoke and Cocktails at Whim Chicago

    What do theater artists do when creative offerings morph post-COVID? What do theatrical spaces become in this life-after-coronavirus reset? Creators gonna create, here with a new experience called Whim Chicago, an […]

  • Karin McKie
  • January 26, 2023
    • Feature , Stages , Talk show , Theater

    2022 in Review: Our Favorite Theater Productions of the Year

    This isn’t a “best theater of the year” list. As we’ve noted about past lists, we don’t see everything. Most of our writers are freelancers, business owners or employed with […]

  • Third Coast Review Staff
  • December 30, 2022
    • Broadway , Feature , Stages , Theater

    On the Road: Broadway Up Close—One of the Best Shows on Broadway Isn’t a Musical

    Tim Dolan is an  actor—occasionally. But his regular gig is as a Broadway tour guide and entrepreneur. He’s owner of Broadway Up Close, which offers walking tours of the Broadway/Times […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • December 6, 2022
    • Feature , Stages , Theater

    Theater Memories: RIP House Theatre of Chicago and So Many More

    We learned this week that House Theatre of Chicago, a 21-year-old company, will cease to exist this summer. House will formally wind down its operations now that its North American […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • June 2, 2022
    • Feature , Stages

    Review: Alyssa Edwards—Skip the Personal, Stick to Drag

    Let’s get this out of the way: I like Alyssa Edwards. She’s one of my favorite drag queens from RuPaul’s Drag Race. She stands out as one of the most […]

  • Doug Mose
  • May 17, 2022
    • Feature , Stages

    Feature: Chicago Theaters on the Move as the Environment Changes …. Dramatically

    Two lean years of pandemic economics, entwined with continuing, insistent calls for real racial justice and gender equity and an end to sexual abuse. The ‘20s have started as a […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • February 6, 2022
    • Feature , Lit , Nonfiction , Stages

    Dialogs: Critical Race Queries from Nikole Hannah-Jones at the Chicago Humanities Festival.

    “We’ve been taught the history of a country that doesn’t exist.” Nikole Hannah-Jones is today’s Ida B. Wells, both fearless females and groundbreaking African-American journalists (Hannah-Jones’ Twitter handle is Ida […]

  • Karin McKie
  • November 30, 2021
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