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Review: A Nuanced and Electric Performance from Complexions Contemporary Ballet

I have always viewed dance as an art of structure and discipline. Traditional ballet has an ethereal quality—tulle and tights with hands just so. Complexions Contemporary Ballet performed at the […]

  • Kathy D. Hey
  • February 11, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: Timeline Theatre Revisits the American Dream with the Timely Debate: Baldwin vs. Buckley

    James Baldwin is the greatest American writer. Period. Even more so during Black History Month 2025. Among Baldwin’s many, many gifts was prescience. As a gay Black midcentury man, he […]

  • Karin McKie
  • February 4, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: In Trap Door’s The Mannequins’ Ball, Mannequins Are the Movers in a Story That Combines Politics and Partying  

    The new production of The Mannequins’ Ball at Trap Door Theatre is a whole lot of 1930s agitprop choreographed with music, singing and dancing. Nicole Weisner and Miguel Long direct 90 minutes […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • February 2, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: Who’s the Hero in Shattered Globe’s Lobby Hero? All Four Characters Face Ethical Choices

    Kenneth Lonergan’s Lobby Hero blends working relationships tested by an ethical dilemma in this comedic drama that gets a timely staging by Shattered Globe Theatre. Is the titular Lobby Hero the loopy […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • January 31, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Theater , Theater Festival

    Dispatch: Puppet Theater Festival Closes With Stories From the Far North to South Africa, Crocheted Art and Music, Music, Music

    The second and final week of the 7th Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival concluded yesterday, after 12 days of international puppet theater productions at dozens of venues plus free neighborhood […]

  • Third Coast Review Staff
  • January 27, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: Fat Ham at Goodman Theatre Transports the Gloomy Dane to a Lively Southern Backyard Barbecue 

    Fat Ham, the prize-winning play by James Ijames, is now on stage at Goodman Theatre in a co-production with Definition Theatre. Ijames’ script was inspired by Shakespeare’s Hamlet and incorporates some of the original’s […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • January 24, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: Porchlight’s Fun Home Sets a Complicated Family Story to Music

    Alison Bechdel released an autobiographical book in 2006 titled Fun Home, based on her life growing up in a small town in Pennsylvania. It was a graphic novel that told the story […]

  • Kathy D. Hey
  • January 22, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: City Lit’s Glassheart Reimagines Beauty and the Beast Set in a Chicago Apartment

    Glassheart is a show bursting with quirky charm, memorable performances and perhaps one too many ideas. This reimagining of Beauty and the Beast set in modern-day Chicago—helmed by newly minted […]

  • Devony Hof
  • January 21, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s Jaja’s African Hair Braiding Features Stellar Cast and Potent Writing

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    We are in a hair salon in Harlem, New York. Miriam (Bisserat Tseggai) is braiding Jennifer’s (Mia Ellis) hair. Hours have passed and there are still many more to go. […]

  • Lauren Katz
  • January 21, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Theater , Theater Festival

    Dispatch: First Week of Puppet Theater Festival Shines With Warm and Icy Stories from France, Israel, Scotland and the US

    This is our first dispatch with brief reviews of some of the shows from the first week of the 7th Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival. From vampire dreams to dancing […]

  • Third Coast Review Staff
  • January 20, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: Milwaukee’s Skylight Music Theatre Stages World Premiere of a Scatological Juliet and Romeo

    If you hated reading Shakespeare in high school, the new musical Juliet and Romeo is for you. Watching this world premiere may prove to be sweet revenge (oh, no! That’s […]

  • Anne Siegel
  • January 20, 2025
    • Broadway , Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: First National Tour of Tony-Winning Shucked Brings Delightfully Corn-y Musical Comedy with Remarkable Cast to Chicago

    I had considered a few ways to start this review, but after consulting the details for the first national tour of Shucked, an eight-time Tony-nominated musical comedy (for which Alex […]

  • Lisa Trifone
  • January 9, 2025
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