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Review: Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Wind Ensemble Excels Under Duress at Mandel Hall

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Review: The Elgin Master Chorale and Director/Conductor Andrew Lewis Produce a Masterful Performance of Stacy Garrop’s Terra Nostra in Elgin

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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
  • January 30, 2024
    • Opera , Stages , Theater

    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
  • January 30, 2024
    • Film & TV , Film fest , Review

    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
  • January 29, 2024
    • Film & TV , Film fest , Review

    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
  • January 29, 2024
    • Stages , Theater , Theater Festival

    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
  • January 29, 2024
    • Chicago history , Lit , Nonfiction , Reviews

    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
  • January 26, 2024
    • Music , Reviews

    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
  • January 26, 2024
    • Feature , Film , Film & TV , Review

    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
  • January 26, 2024
    • Film & TV , Review , Television

    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
  • January 26, 2024
    • Film & TV , Review , Television

    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
  • January 26, 2024
    • Front page

    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
  • January 25, 2024
    • Opera , Stages

    Review: Lyric Presents Rossini’s Cinderella/La Cenerentola With a Twist

    I have four copies of Grimm’s Fairy Tales in my library and while I have a weird fondness for dark morality tales, I also enjoy the story of the stepchild […]

  • Kathy D. Hey
  • January 24, 2024
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