“Everybody looks better once they die.” Welcome to your orientation to the afterlife. In a gritty, dungeon-like club, the cast of “Incendium” provides a cabaret-style evening of performance to acquaint […]
Performers threw themselves against the wall, stood nearly motionless practically balanced on their heads for minutes on end, carried each other across the stage and moved deeply and intricately. […]
I’m Brianna Kratz, a Chicago poet and reader. In 2016 I’m reading only women authors for my Read Only Women Experiment (R.O.W.E.). For weekly updates on challenges, conversations, and book […]
Normally, we’d wait to publish a preview of a show until a few days beforehand, but this is (paradoxically) too cool and too hot to wait on: The Smashing Pumpkins […]
An evening of Vices. An evening of Virtues. That’s how Profiles Theatre describes the collection of 11 short plays by Neil LaBute now being staged at the theater in […]
Did you know there were once two Americas? One is the United States of America we know today, but the other was an equally legally valid “Confederate States of America,” […]
Your Guide to a Better February Each month the intrepid writers of Third Coast Review compile our favorite events for the month. We come together as an eclectic group of […]
The new photographic mural, Descending to Heaven, by the Chicago-based artist Darryll Schiff, is the first completed Wabash Arts Corridor project to be funded through the crowdfunding site Kickstarter. Installed at […]
“Do you really believe in 100 years, people will be talking about Sherlock?” Says Michael Aaron Lindner as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the man behind the sleuth who is tired […]
On a cold Tuesday night, 30 to 40 people crowd the back of Women and Children First in Andersonville. As people continue to arrive, extra chairs miraculously appear, pushed up against […]
Shakespeare in Russian rocks, especially when you start the evening with a shot (OK, shots) of vodka in a “Shakespeare 400 Chicago” glass. Kicking off a year-long, city-wide celebration of […]
Hey, everyone. Due to my recently concluded time at the Sundance Film Festival and an upcoming trip to London, I’m missing a fair number of press screenings, so I likely […]
