Stages, Theater, Theater Festival

Dispatch: Puppet Theater Festival Closes With Puppetry Comic, Joyful, Grim and Gorgeous

Puppets have stories to tell. And they tell them in all sorts of fanciful and humanistic ways. The 6th annual Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival has come to an end […]

Third Coast Review Staff /
Stages, Theater

Review: Murderous Fun With Some Kinks in American Psycho: The Musical by Kokandy Productions

American Psycho as originally conceived by author Bret Easton Ellis has a great elevator pitch. “A novel about an investment banker in the Reagan eighties who at night becomes a […]

Adam Kaz /
Stages, Storefront, Theater

Review: Teatro Vista’s The Dream King Takes Us on a Magical Musical Silent Adventure

In The Dream King by Teatro Vista, creator Marvin Quijada as Sam performs a magical if familiar story in movement and original music. It’s a “silent musical “ about a man in […]

Nancy S Bishop /
Stages, Theater

Review: House Theatre Unearths the History of Haiti with The Tragedy of King Christophe

If we depended on the news media to learn the history of the island nation of Haiti, we would not know a lot of substance. Various dictators, earthquakes, and humanitarian […]

Kathy D. Hey /
Stages, Theater

Review: Molly Sweeney at Irish Theatre Examines the Difference Between Seeing and Understanding  

Molly Sweeney is an independent middle-aged woman who lives in Donegal. She has a job, a husband, friends, social activities, and she loves to swim in the sea. She has […]

Nancy S Bishop /
Stages, Theater

Review: Hell in a Handbag’s The Drag Seed Fails to Bloom

Hell in a Handbag’s New York-bound revival of its 2019 production The Drag Seed has lots to say about LGBTQ culture and the advances that have been made in the last 40 […]

Doug Mose /
Stages, Theater

Review: House Theatre’s Verböten Adds a Lot of Heart to “Three Chords and the Truth”

The old rock trope says that punk music is “three chords and the truth.” That holds true for the fact-based story about a kid punk band from Evanston in the […]

Nancy S Bishop /
Stages, Theater

Review: Theater Oobleck’s It Is Magic Reveals the Curse of Auditions and a Few Surprises As Well

Every once in a while, some magic happens in a theater. And it’s just as likely to be a storefront or a church basement or a former school as a […]

Nancy S Bishop /
Lit, Live lit events

Asymptote Journal: A Five-Year Anniversary Celebration

Experimental Japanese translations. Interviews with National Book Award finalists. Mexican Twitter fiction. Ancient Babylonian texts and contemporary underground Uyghur poetry. These are just a few of the offerings from literary translation journal […]

Andrew Hertzberg /