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Review: Porchlight’s Titanique Sparkles Like That Diamond (You Know the One)

Not since gin and vermouth first met ice has any cocktail sparkled so purely, so perfectly, so powerfully as Porchlight Theatre’s crazy collision with a fateful iceberg, Titanique, now running […]

  • Doug Mose
  • April 3, 2025
    • Broadway , Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: Broadway in Chicago’s Clue Pays Joyful Homage to the Original Classic Film and Board Game

    Four women and a man stand on stage crouched in a line with three men standing behind them as they search for something. All actors are looking to their left off in the distance with a frightened look on their faces.

    There have been two murders at Boddy Manor, and the stakes have never been higher. Wadsworth, Yvette, and the dinner guests are becoming increasingly terrified, and no one quite knows […]

  • Lauren Katz
  • February 21, 2025
    • Broadway , Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: First National Tour of Tony-Winning Shucked Brings Delightfully Corn-y Musical Comedy with Remarkable Cast to Chicago

    I had considered a few ways to start this review, but after consulting the details for the first national tour of Shucked, an eight-time Tony-nominated musical comedy (for which Alex […]

  • Lisa Trifone
  • January 9, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: One-Man Show Yippee Ki Yay Hilariously Recounts 1988’s Die Hard With a Personal Twist

    We want to hear from you! Take our brief reader survey now and share your feedback on what you love at Third Coast Review—and what we could be doing better! Plus, everyone […]

  • Lisa Trifone
  • November 21, 2024
    • Broadway , Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: Some Like It Hot, We Get It Tepid

    Billy Wilder’s 1959 Some Like It Hot is widely considered a perfect film: witty and surprising, silly and sexy—a culmination of Wilder’s brilliant career and a showcase for its stars […]

  • Doug Mose
  • October 26, 2024
    • Broadway , Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Is Sheer Magic

    Sorting hats! Quidditch brooms! Wand duels! Dementors! We’re in the midst of the spooky season and over at the Nederlander Theatre they are brewing up the perfect potion: the launch […]

  • Doug Mose
  • October 4, 2024
    • Broadway , Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: The Souped-up Car Is the Star of Back to the Future at the Cadillac Palace

    During the lazy days of summer, who wants to see a depressing show that reminds you of all your troubles? Nobody. Instead, you just want to sit back and be […]

  • Anne Siegel
  • August 18, 2024
    • Broadway , Stages , Theater

    Review: The Kite Runner Reveals Complex Story of Guilt and Redemption

    The Kite Runner is a contemplative play that spans decades, continents and various aspects of the human heart. The national tour production is currently playing at the CIBC Theatre through […]

  • Anne Siegel
  • June 18, 2024
    • Broadway , Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: Broadway in Chicago’s Death Becomes Her Is Full of Camp and Knock-Out Performances

    Megan Hilty (Madeline Ashton) and Jennifer Simard (Helen Sharp) in DEATH BECOMES HER. Photo Credit: Matthew Murphy & Evan Zimmerman

    Chicago is no stranger to Broadway trials—especially adaptations of classic films. We have seen countless move through the city over the years, and many seem to fall into the trap […]

  • Lauren Katz
  • May 21, 2024
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: How I Learned What I Learned by Congo Square Theatre Is Wisdom on Being Black in America

    Congo Square Theatre is celebrating a landmark anniversary of 25 years of producing and staging plays written by Black artists about the Black experience in America. Their production of August […]

  • Kathy D. Hey
  • April 23, 2024
    • Broadway , Stages , Theater

    Review: Broadway in Chicago Brings Well-Crafted, Hilarious Fun in Mrs. Doubtfire

    Once in a while, a theater production comes along that does better on tour than it does on Broadway. Mrs. Doubtfire, by the songwriting team of Wayne and Karey Kirkpatrick […]

  • Anne Siegel
  • March 4, 2024
    • Broadway , Stages , Theater

    Review: Midnight’s Broken Toll …. Girl from the North Country

    Girl from the North Country, a musical adaptation of Bob Dylan’s songs by the Irish playwright Conor McPherson, has already appeared in London’s West End, Off-Broadway at the Public Theater, […]

  • June Sawyers
  • February 16, 2024
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