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Review: Second City e.t.c. Puts on a Must-See Night of Fun With Best Kept Secret—Tell Everyone

Review by Erin Ryan.  We want to hear from you! Take our brief reader survey now and share your feedback on what you love at Third Coast Review—and what we could be […]

  • Erin Ryan
  • November 1, 2024
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: Kokandy’s Into the Woods Depicts a Marvelous Forest, Bumps Into a Few Trees

    This review offers some tough love. Love for Kokandy Productions, for its ambitions and scope, for its actors and musicians. But I’m also going to add a tough critique for […]

  • Doug Mose
  • October 28, 2024
    • Dance , Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: Racism Remembered as Edgar Arceneaux Revisits Ben Vereen’s Performance for Reagan’s 1981 Inauguration

    The Museum of Contemporary Art hosted a 50-minute performance of Edgar Arceneaux’s Until, Until, Until… for three performances in October. The LA-based writer/director/producer/performer devised the production 10 years ago to […]

  • Karin McKie
  • October 27, 2024
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: Manual Cinema’s Frankenstein— Beautiful Handmade Horror

    Something very wonderful is on stage at the Studebaker Theater this pre-Halloween weekend. A haunting affair, one part horror and another strange beauty, the Chicago-based Emmy-award-winning performance collective Manual Cinema […]

  • Doug Mose
  • October 27, 2024
    • Broadway , Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: Some Like It Hot, We Get It Tepid

    Billy Wilder’s 1959 Some Like It Hot is widely considered a perfect film: witty and surprising, silly and sexy—a culmination of Wilder’s brilliant career and a showcase for its stars […]

  • Doug Mose
  • October 26, 2024
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: In Remy Bumppo’s Dear Elizabeth, Two Poets Reflect on Their Lives and Work in Their Letters

    A pair of poets, in love with words, are sort of, possibly, in love with each other. Or not. That’s the theme of Dear Elizabeth, an epistolary play by Sarah Ruhl. […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • October 23, 2024
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater , Theater Festival

    Review: Ruth on the Rocks Plays a Mixtape Down Memory Lane as Part of Destinos International Latino Theater Festival

    This year marks the 7th Destinos International Latino Theater Festival, which brings a variety of performances from as far as Spain and Argentina to the Back of the Yards neighborhood […]

  • Kathy D. Hey
  • October 22, 2024
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Babes with Blades Is a Fun and Feisty Take on Fairyland

    Each iteration of A Midsummer Night’s Dream presents a different version of the confounding and enchanted woods in which the characters lose themselves. Audience members walk in, wondering how this […]

  • Devony Hof
  • October 21, 2024
    • Dance , Review , Stages

    Review: Joffrey Ballet Stages a Literary Masterpiece with Marston’s Atonement, Adapted from Ian McEwan’s Novel

    I’ve often said that a film retelling will destroy a brilliant literary work and a mediocre book can make a great film. My example [of the latter] is Mario Puzo’s […]

  • Kathy D. Hey
  • October 20, 2024
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: Theater Above the Law’s Grimm Exhausts You With Style

    Who would’ve thought two 19th-century German nerds could cause such a stir? When Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm compiled their nation’s folklore in the Grimms’ Fairy Tales they sparked two centuries […]

  • Adam Kaz
  • October 17, 2024
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: At Goodman Theatre, Eboni Booth’s Primary Trust Explores the Inner World of Grief and Learning to Thrive

    Grief is born out of trauma and thrives in loneliness. Playwright Eboni Booth creates a devastating inner world of grief in Primary Trust and builds a shell of a world […]

  • Kathy D. Hey
  • October 16, 2024
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater , Uncategorized

    Review: Hell in a Handbag Doles Out the Treats with Double the Farce in the Latest Chapter of Golden Girls

    There are not many certainties in life and when a sure thing is discovered we all should enjoy it. So, just in time for the Halloween season, Hell in a […]

  • Kathy D. Hey
  • October 15, 2024
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