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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
    • 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
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: As You Like It at Writers Theatre Is a Dazzling Tribute to Love and Community

    As someone who’s been meaning to visit Writers Theatre but was struggling to get out of the city and up to Glencoe, I can say that my trip was more […]

  • Row Light
  • November 14, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: Tin Drum Theatre’s The Unseen Dazzles and Disturbs

    It seems there’s a goldrush for plays people sense might be prescient or “timely.” Which in 2025 means shows that predict devastation and authoritarian nightmares. Tin Drum Theatre Company’s The […]

  • Adam Kaz
  • November 12, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: Ego Death Theatre’s Days of Rage Is Ferocious, Funny, and Heart-Wrenchingly Human

    Ego Death Theatre Collective successfully hits the mark with Days of Rage by Steven Levenson. A compelling script, following a group of young radicals who are willing to do anything […]

  • Erin Ryan
  • November 9, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: Friends with Guns by A Short Leap Theatre Finds Sparks in a Tricky Conversation

    Friends with Guns, written by Stephanie Allison Walker and directed by Nathan Dale Short, is a provocative play that explores both sides of one of the most controversial debates happening […]

  • Erin Ryan
  • November 9, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: Superior Donuts by Artistic Home Is Warm-Hearted and Entertaining But Needs an Update

    Tracy Letts’ 2008 play Superior Donuts is a story about friendship between two unlikely souls—with a good dose of violence added. The story is set in an Uptown donut shop […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • November 8, 2025
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