Stages, Theater

2019 in Review: Our Favorite Nights at the Theater

This isn’t a “best theater of the year” list. As we’ve noted about past lists, we don’t see everything. Most of our writers are freelancers, all with other gigs, and […]

Third Coast Review Staff /
Review, Stages, Theater

Review: Fresh Talent and Palpable Energy Deliver a Can’t Miss West Side Story

West Side Story

At a typical (however one defines that) performance at Lyric Opera of Chicago, the accompanying program includes in each cast and crew bio the professional’s previous Lyric credits. The asterisks […]

Lisa Trifone /
Opera, Stages

Review: Lyric’s La Traviata Offers Familiarity Through First-Rate Performances

La Traviata

As operas go, La Traviata is perhaps among the best known. Giuseppe Verdi’s adaptation (with a libretto by Francesco Maria Piave) of a play that itself was based on a novel by […]

Lisa Trifone /
Opera, Stages

Review: Lyric’s Cendrillon Is a Fairy Tale That Dazzles and Delights

Cendrillon

Whether it’s Rogers & Hammerstein, Disney, the Brothers Grimm or Charles Perrault, the story of Cinderella, her fairy godmother, the glass slippers and happily ever after is, even in these […]

Lisa Trifone /
Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: La Divina Tells Her Own Story in Maria By Callas

Maria by Callas

I’ve attended more opera in the last year than I have in all my years of attending theater (and that’s a lot of years!). I’ve been able to see several […]

Lisa Trifone /
Today

Women’s March to the Polls Draws Thousands, Lyric Opera Musicians Settle Strike, Officer Cleared in Shooting – TODAY 10-15-18

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Women’s ‘March to the Polls’ Draws Thousands Thousands gathered in Grant Park over the weekend for the “Women’s March to the Polls,” a rally and voting drive put together by […]

Aaron Cynic /
Opera, Stages

Lyric Opera’s Turandot is a Lavish, Impressive Production of Puccini’s Final Opera

At the pre-show lecture in advance of Monday’s performance of Turandot at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, WFMT’s Carl Grapentine observed that, in the end, Puccini’s final opera—about a cold, unloving […]

Lisa Trifone /