It’s evening, and Sandra (Monique Marshaun) is alone in her office. She pulls out a bottle of wine and is set to unwind until co-worker and assistant professor Jade (Toccara […]
Rising Water is one of a trilogy of plays by John Biguenet about Hurricane Katrina; the other two plays are Shotgun and Mold. It has been 20 years since America […]
Stereophonic is a play about a year in the life of a rock band (never named) and the personal and musical trials and tribulations it goes through during recording sessions […]
Actor/comedian/marathoning fundraising activist Suzy Eddie Izzard (she/her) stopped by Chicago Shakespeare Theater for a chinwag with artistic director Edward Hall last week, also taking many audience questions in a freewheeling, […]
Eureka Day is a play about vaccination and anti-vaccination. But of course, it’s about a lot more. The play, now being staged by Timeline Theatre, tells the story of how […]
Prospera: A Sci-Fi Retelling is a fanciful but complicated story in its new production by Otherworld Theatre. The play is an adaptation of Shakespeare’s late play, The Tempest, but you […]
Green Corridors focuses on the stories of four Ukrainian women and other citizens trying to escape the brutality of Russian attacks on Ukraine in the war that Russia started in […]
Third Coast Review contributor Tory Crowley is a native Midwesterner currently living in Budapest, Hungary. Please enjoy her European cultural notes. When I told my British co-worker that I’d be […]
During 2025 our theater team wrote almost 200 articles for our Stages page, which included opera, dance, comedy, magic, children’s theater and the occasional interview and theater book review. That […]
I was not quite sure what to expect from the Manual Cinema adaptation of A Christmas Carol. I have seen countless versions, including one rated TV-MA on cable television that […]
Megan Hilty’s shows at Steppenwolf Theatre this last weekend were the kind of event that draws a crowd before the first note is played. With Tony-nominated credentials from Death Becomes […]
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 […]