Your Chicago Curated Weekend: 12/15 – 12/18
We’re midway through the month and winter has finally arrived. There’s a fair amount of snow on the ground and it’s regularly well below freezing. While I’m sure huddling up […]
Review: Ron Faiola’s Wisconsin Supper Clubs Another Round
Ron Faiola is no stranger to supper clubs, especially those scattered throughout our neighbor state to the north. Wisconsin Supper Clubs: Another Round is his second glossy coffee-table book focusing on […]
Promethean’s Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde Takes Gender-Bending Approach to Art and Justice
Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde is a documentary-style play set in a courtroom. Lest you think that sounds dry, it isn’t. The script is flush with the […]
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: A Heartbreaking Masterpiece for Teens and Adults
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a Holmesian mystery told from the perspective of a 15-year-old British boy with autism. I was apprehensive to attend the […]
Book Review: Kevin Smokler’s Brat Pack America
Movies are a global business. This is something close to an axiom given how Hollywood iconography has swaddled the globe. Audiences from Berlin to (formerly) Bombay became acquainted with silver […]
Laughing All The Way: Second City’s Twist Your Dickens Is a Hilarious Breath of Fresh Air for the Holidays
It’s no secret that Chicago is home to a comedy powerhouse that’s given us more amazing comedic talent than there’s space to mention here. Second City is rightfully revered, and […]
Couch-Watch Shakespeare 400 Chicago Shows with The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses
“For God’s sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings; How some have been deposed; some slain in war, Some haunted by […]
Where to See the Nutcracker This Season
It’s the holiday season, and in the dance world that means just one thing: the Nutcracker. This holiday tradition brings the magic of Christmas to life through the beauty of ballet. […]
Film Review: Kate Plays Christine, Delicate as it is Tough
Just a few weeks ago, we were fortunate enough to get the brief release of director Antonio Campos film Christine, about Florida newscaster Christine Chubbuck, who killed herself on the […]
Film Review: Office Christmas Party, Sharp as a Marble
Is it childish, with adult humans acting like drunken, out-of-control teenagers? Naturally. Are the jokes cheap and tawdry? Oh, you know it. Is there destruction of property and perhaps even […]
Win a Pair of Tickets to Reaction NYE, Dec. 30-31!
We at Third Coast Review are giving you a chance to count down to 2017 with Zeds Dead at one of the best 17+ New Years Eve concerts in Chicago, […]
Film Review: Miss Sloane, A Captivating Look at the Moral Ambiguity of Washington D.C.
Thanks to a handful of unexpected casting choices among the supporting cast and an impressive turn by lead actor Jessica Chastain, the battle of the lobbyists tale Miss Sloane is […]