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Review: Strong Central Performances Lead the Bleak but Authentic The Death of Robin Hood

by Steve Prokopy
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Review: Lookingglass Theatre’s Untitled Vampire Play Amuses and Charms

by Lauren Katz
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Jordan Arredondo (Dom) & Courtney Ricki Green (Val). Photo by Justin Barbin
Jordan Arredondo (Dom) & Courtney Ricki Green (Val). Photo by Justin Barbin
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Review:  From Musicmaker to Baker, Chicago to Nashville—Susannah Felts’ Novel The Come Apart Tells the Story

by Nancy S Bishop
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Review: Willem de Kooning’s Rich Canon Explored in Art Institute’s Drawing Exhibit

by Karin McKie
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Review: Family Legacies Run Deep in Steppenwolf’s Catch as Catch Can

by Doug Mose
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  • Dialogs , Events , Fiction , Lit , Live lit events

Dialogs: Apers vs. Woo: Giano Cromley’s American Mythology Event at the Seminary Co-Op

While author Giano Cromley currently lives on the Southside of Chicago and teaches as an English professor at Kennedy-King College, he was born in Montana and is a certified wildlife […]

  • Holly Smith
  • October 29, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: Family Secrets and Lies Are the Raw Material for Four Places by 4 Chairs Theatre

    Four Places is a tense family drama, played out over a lunch conversation between two adult children with their mother. The play by Joel Drake Johnson is now being staged […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • October 28, 2025
    • Music , Reviews

    Review: Indigo De Souza Takes Thalia Hall to the Precipice

    “This s new type of set so I may mess things up” uttered Indigo De Souza during her Thalia Hall set. This playful warning was understandable as this show was […]

  • Julian Ramirez
  • October 28, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: Kokandy’s Jekyll & Hyde Makes Its Captivating Return to the Chicago Stage

    The definitive metaphor for the duality of mankind, the torrid tale of Jekyll and Hyde has been familiar to lovers of literature for nearly 140 years. Adapted for the stage […]

  • Anthony Cusumano
  • October 28, 2025
    • Events , Lit , Live lit events

    Review: In the Carnival of Love: Monsters, Clowns, and the Holy Fool, by Satori

    Review by Tori Rego. Since making their publishing debut in 2024, local independent arts magazine and press, Raging Opossum, has sought to distinguish itself through gathering emerging voices that share […]

  • Tori Rego
  • October 28, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Film fest

    Reichardt Retrospective at Chicago Int’l Film Fest Highlights the Filmmaker’s Mastery of the Mundane

    “This film will really put the hustle in you.” Director Kelly Reichardt said this of her breakout film Old Joy (2006) while introducing its screening at the Gene Siskel Film […]

  • Anthony Miglieri
  • October 27, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Film fest , Review

    Recap: Chicago Film Fest Award Winners and Films Worth Seeking Out Post-Festival

    The 61st Chicago International Film Festival wrapped up on Sunday, October 26 with a Chicago premiere screening of Eternity starring Elizabeth Olsen, Miles Teller and Callum Turner. Ahead of the […]

  • Third Coast Review Staff
  • October 27, 2025
    • Beyond , Chicago history , Music , Pop/Rock

    Feature: Bob Mould Is Tank Man / Electrical Audio Is Mecca

    Bob Mould seems to be comfortable alone. He’s released 15 solo albums since 1989’s Workbook and is currently touring to support his most recent offering, Here We Go Crazy. Even […]

  • Karin McKie
  • October 27, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: It’s a Revival! Music Theater Works Revisits Godspell Over 50 Years Later

    The musical Godspell was a colossal hit off-Broadway, with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and book by John Michael Tebelak. It was 1971, and the news trumpeted stories about […]

  • Kathy D. Hey
  • October 27, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: With Nouvelle Vague, Richard Linklater Crafts a Love Letter to French New Wave and Jean-Luc Godard

    If one takes a passing glance at Richard Linklater’s filmography, helming a black-and-white, mostly-in-French retelling of the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s seminal French New Wave classic Breathless might seem a […]

  • Lisa Trifone
  • October 27, 2025
    • Dialogs , Events , Fiction , Lit , Live lit events , Writing

    Dialogs: Just an Emotion—Horror Writing and Religion at the American Writers Museum

    The American Writers Museum (AWM)’s exhibit American Prophets: Writers, Religion, and Culture will look “through the pages of American history to explore the influence of religion and spirituality on writers […]

  • Holly Smith
  • October 26, 2025
    • Beyond , Event , Food , Review

    Review: Paint and Sip at The Gwen Is an Experiment in Colorful Cuisine

    A Spirited Affair saw Fess Parker Winery, a Santa Barbara fixture, paired with The Gwen Chicago for a remarkable paint and sip event. Bites and sips pairings were designed by […]

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  • October 25, 2025
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