Your Chicago Curated Weekend: 2/1 and Beyond

It’s a new month, so let’s find something fun to do this first weekend of Black History month! There are plenty of markets, shows, and delicious food ready to wow […]

Julian Ramirez /

Review: How Will the World End? Fire, Ice or Water? In Flood at Shattered Globe, the Answer Is Water

Shattered Globe Theatre’s new play, Flood, is about family issues—parents who don’t understand their children, children who never call home, elderly parents who ignore the realities of today’s world. There may […]

Nancy S Bishop /

Review: Champion at the Lyric Defines Opera in Jazz With Story of Boxer Emile Griffith

Champion is the story of welterweight boxer Emile Griffith’s career in boxing with a life-defining fatal bout in 1962 against Benny “Kid” Paret. I believe that an opera in jazz […]

Kathy D. Hey /

Dispatch: At Sundance Film Festival, Two Films Don’t Go Quite Far Enough in their Respective Subject Matters

Our reviews of Sundance Film Festival official selections continue; follow all of our coverage of the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. The American Society of Magical Negroes Full of compelling ideas […]

Third Coast Review Staff /

Dispatch: Sentimental Stories and a Powerful Saoirse Ronan Performance at Sundance Film Festival

Our latest Sundance Film Festival reviews continue; read all our coverage of the 2024 Sundance film Festival now. Ghostlight Once of the most heartfelt (yet not overly sentimental) films at […]

Third Coast Review Staff /

Dispatch: Puppet Theater Festival Closes With Puppetry Comic, Joyful, Grim and Gorgeous

Puppets have stories to tell. And they tell them in all sorts of fanciful and humanistic ways. The 6th annual Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival has come to an end […]

Third Coast Review Staff /
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Review: The Lost Subways of North America: A Cartographic Guide to the Past, Present, and What Might Have Been, by Jake Berman

From Atlanta to Washington, DC, Boston to Vancouver, Los Angeles to Miami, Montreal to Toronto, cartographer and writer Jake Berman explores the failures and successes of North American transport through […]

June Sawyers /

Review: Squirrel Flower, Greg Freeman, and Tenci Exemplify the Best TNK Fest Has to Offer

Every passing year TNK Fest rises to the occasion: kicking off the year with amazing shows. The multi-day fest spreads itself across a nice collection of venues (this year included […]

Julian Ramirez /

Review: Kleber Mendonça Filho Bravely Preserves a Piece of Moviegoing History in Pictures of Ghosts

The city of Santurce used to be, when I was growing up in the 1970s and early ’80s, the moviegoing mecca for those who called the San Juan Metropolitan Area […]

Alejandro Riera /

Recap: Fargo (S5, Ep5) — Staggered but Entertaining Episode Further Proves Dot’s Capability

Is this season of Fargo running in place a little? The show has a history of doing this sometimes—not every season of television can be this show’s second and third, […]

Sam Layton /

Recap: The Curse (S1, Ep5) — Whitney Cracks Under Pressure in Tense, Excellent Episode

Just as I thought the first season of The Curse was meandering a little, it sucks me right back in. Things have been looser after the pilot episode, as the […]

Sam Layton /

Your Chicago Curated Weekend: 1/25 & Beyond

The below-zero temps are behind us and the rain is here making our beautiful city a little damp. Let’s make the best of what we got and discover something fun […]

Julian Ramirez /