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Review: Murder Girl in Milwaukee Becomes an Unlikely Holiday Hit

One addition to Milwaukee’s holiday entertainment roster this season has nothing to do with dancing nutcrackers or elderly English moneylenders. Instead, the cast of Milwaukee Chamber Theatre’s Murder Girl by […]

  • Anne Siegel
  • December 11, 2025
    • Dance , Review , Stages

    Review: South Chicago Dance Theatre Exopresses the Raw Emotions of Loss Through Lamentations of Peace

    South Chicago Dance Theatre (SCDT) is in season 9 and continues to dance close to the edge. Founder Kia S. Smith choreographed Lamentations of Peace with a narrative of the […]

  • Kathy D. Hey
  • December 9, 2025
    • Children's theater , Review , Stages , Storefront

    Review: A Year With Frog and Toad Delights Kids and Parents at Young People’s Theatre  

    A Year With Frog and Toad may not be a holiday play but it is a celebration of friendship throughout the seasons, from the moment the two friends wake from […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • December 8, 2025
    • Dance , Review , Stages

    Review: Joffrey’s Sparkling Nutcracker Delivers Sugar Plums, Magic, and Spectacle

    Let us now consider the sugar plum. For years, I thought it was an artisan plum rolled in silver sugar. I was this many years old when I discovered that […]

  • Kathy D. Hey
  • December 8, 2025
    • Review , Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: A More Dickensian Approach to A Christmas Carol for the Goodman Theatre’s Centennial

    Several versions of A Christmas Carol are familiar on television, in the movies, and, specifically, live at the Goodman Theatre. It’s a start to the holiday season in Chicago, usually coinciding […]

  • Kathy D. Hey
  • November 28, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: Quirky Characters Spotlight the Fun in Much Ado About Nothing at Chicago Shakespeare Theater

    She hates him. He loatheItss her. “The course of true love never did run smooth.” Wait, that is A Midsummer Night’s Dream, but in any case, it’s a Shakespearean theme […]

  • Kathy D. Hey
  • November 26, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: Make Room for Boswell, a Lively History Tale on Stage in Milwaukee

    While many Third Coast Review readers may be absorbing the latest Ken Burns’ TV documentary about the American Revolution, I imagine that few are thinking about events happening on the […]

  • Anne Siegel
  • November 26, 2025
    • Dance , Review , Stages , Theater

    Preview: Tchaikovsky and Ellington Duke It Out in a Family Friendly Nutcracker at the Music Institute of Chicago

    The 2025 holiday season is upon us, and there are delightful entertainments for everyone. Duke It Out is a face-off between Duke Ellington and Pyotr Tchaikovsky of The Nutcracker Suite. […]

  • Kathy D. Hey
  • November 26, 2025
    • Music , Opera , Review , Stages

    Review: A Night of Mellon Collie and Infinite Sadness Is a Smashing (Pumpkins) Success at Lyric Opera

    Perhaps more than any other ’90s rock icon, Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan has remained unapologetically artistically adventurous three decades into his career—while the most recent Pearl Jam and Foo […]

  • Anthony Cusumano
  • November 24, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: Court Theatre Puts a Feminist Twist on Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew

    I have contemplated the versions of The Taming of the Shrew that I have seen over the years. I never liked the premise that a woman should be trained to […]

  • Kathy D. Hey
  • November 24, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: At Trap Door Theatre, A Devil Comes to Town Celebrates Writers  and Their Passion to Be Published

    It’s a Swiss town full of writers, where everyone is obsessed with getting published and winning a new literary prize. A Publisher arrives, eager to find new works to be […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • November 22, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: Genius, Envy and Madness on Display in Amadeus at Steppenwolf Theatre

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Whenever I speak or hear the name, his glorious and stirring Requiem is the first thing that springs to mind. Sir Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus is now playing […]

  • Kathy D. Hey
  • November 19, 2025
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