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Chicago Is Lit: May Literary Events in and Around Chicago and the Midwest

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Review: Star of the Sea Is a Revelation of Music for the Virgin Mary from Colonial Guatemala

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Review: Multidisciplinary Future Arrives at Harris Theater With “Icons and Innovators”

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Review: Spectacle and Story Collide in Lifeline’s Ambitious Rock Musical Loki—The End of the World Tour

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Review: Ambiguity as Antidote—Alyssa Battistoni’s Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature

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Star Wars Rise of Skywalker
  • Film , Film & TV , Review

Review: As It Ends an Era, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Gets Too Nostalgic for Its Own Good

I think I went into this most recent (and supposedly final) Star Wars with the right attitude: I didn’t pin my hopes and dreams on the filmmakers bringing us back […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • December 18, 2019
    • Music , Reviews

    Review: Mount Eerie and Julie Doiron Return to Lost Wisdom and Share it with Thalia Hall

    There was an eleven year gap between Julie Doiron and Phil Elverum (Mount Eerie) Lost Wisdom albums. A whole mess of love, loss, births, and revivals have happened in the […]

  • Julian Ramirez
  • December 18, 2019
    • Stages , Theater

    Review: Chicago’s History Flames Again in Burning Bluebeard by the Ruffians

    As part of its 25th anniversary season, Porchlight Music Theatre is presenting the Ruffians’ indispensable Christmas show Burning Bluebeard. Inspired by the 1903 Iroquois Theatre fire, Burning Bluebeard is hardly typical Christmas […]

  • June Sawyers
  • December 17, 2019
  • The Light in the Piazza Chicago
    • Opera , Stages

    Review: Fall in Love in Italy This Holiday with The Light in the Piazza at Lyric Opera

    “Mother, what happened here?” The innocent question that opens The Light in the Piazza has a loaded answer. Clara Johnson (Solea Pfeiffer) and her mother Margaret (Renée Fleming) step into […]

  • Jessica Mlinaric
  • December 17, 2019
    • Stages , Theater

    Review: Should We Fear Disease or Demagogues in Trap Door’s The White Plague?

    The White Plague or a new form of leprosy is what everyone fears in the new play at Trap Door Theatre. However, the disease described in Czech playwright Karel Čapek’s […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • December 15, 2019
    • Comedy , Review , Stages

    Review: The Second City Asks Do You Believe in Madness?

      The Second City’s 108th revue, Do You Believe in Madness?, is a bright look at dark times. Under the direction of Ryan Bernier, the cast well-represents the East Coast here […]

  • Karin McKie
  • December 14, 2019
    • Audio

    Playtime Radio: Frida Kahlo 2020 Exhibit in Glen Ellyn

    Playtime with Bill Turck and Kerri Kendall is our radio arts partner. Third Coast Review news and reviews are highlighted and our writers sometimes appear on the Sunday afternoon arts radio […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • December 13, 2019
    • Music , Previews

    Preview: Live the Wyldlife at Liar’s Club This Saturday

    The New York city scene regained dash of its danger in the early aughts during that era’s resurgence of rawk, but as the spotlight of fame softened those rough edges, […]

  • Jim Kopeny / Tankboy
  • December 13, 2019
  • Knives and Skin
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Knives and Skin Is a Chicago-made Surreal Coming of Age Tale

    Not to be confused with Knives Out, though sharing some thematic DNA with Rian Johnson’s earlier film, Brick, Knives and Skin is a stylized, teen noir meditation on suburban stagnation, […]

  • Matthew Nerber
  • December 12, 2019
  • Jumanji The Next Level
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: A Familiar Cast—And a Few New Faces—Play the Same Game in Jumanji: The Next Level

    I went into the last Jumanji film, Welcome to the Jungle, with such neutral expectations that I was pleasantly surprised to discover a funny, energetic adventure comedy featuring an array […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • December 12, 2019
  • Colewell
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: A Moving Portrait of a Quiet Life in Colewell

    The sophomore effort from writer/director Tom Quinn (The New Year Parade) is exactly the kind of movie that could easily get lost in the shuffle of awards-season contenders and bigger-budget […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • December 12, 2019
    • Lit , Poetry

    Book Review: Take Me to the Rivers—Renny Golden’s The Music of Her Rivers: Poems

    The Music of Her Rivers: Poems By Renny Golden University of New Mexico Press, 87 pages, $18.95 Reviewed by Patrick T. Reardon The Pueblo boy with “thick hair…the color of […]

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  • December 12, 2019
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