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Review: Story Theatre is Fire Hot in Debut Production, Marie Antoinette and the Magical Negroes

Almost everything that is written about the times we live in uses words like troubled, divided, and unprecedented. Various adjectives used by the media are rehashed, and do not get […]

  • Kathy D. Hey
  • July 3, 2022
    • Stages , Theater

    Review: Raven Theatre Stages The Luckiest, a Play About Love and Family—With an Ironic Title

    The Luckiest is the ironic title of a superb play by Melissa Ross, now on stage at Raven Theatre. It’s a play about family, love and relationships and how they matter, […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • May 30, 2022
    • Stages , Theater

    Review: Griffin Theatre Company’s Solaris Makes (Human) Contact

    Few 20th century works of art have inspired as many adaptations as Stanislaw Lem’s 1961 science fiction classic Solaris: three films, four operas, five plays and an eponymous Hungarian rock […]

  • Doug Mose
  • March 1, 2022
    • Stages , Theater

    Review: Raven Theatre’s A Doll’s House Ends With That Satisfying Slammed Door

    It’s the most famous slammed door in theater history. And it’s the most satisfying slammed door for a feminist. It’s 1879 and that exit signifies Nora Helmer’s departure from husband, […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • February 18, 2020
    • Stages , Theater

    Review: At Raven Theatre, Sundown, Yellow Moon Suffers From Pallid Script, Odd Staging

    Sundown, Yellow Moon by Rachel Bonds is a family story about twin sisters from the big city who visit their newly divorced father in his barely furnished cabin in the […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • October 9, 2019
    • Stages , Theater

    Review: At Raven Theatre, Will Hank’s Bar Survive The Undeniable Sound of Right Now?

    First of all, there’s the bar. Jeffrey D. Kmiec’s design of Hank’s Bar is a classic and so realistic you will want to park on a stool and order a […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • May 9, 2019
    • Stages , Theater

    Review: Compass Theatre’s What We’re Up Against Shows 1992 Workplace Sexism Is Still Alive and Well

    Playwright Theresa Rebeck is a master of dialogue and never hesitates to portray the bad manners of her contemporaries. Her 2011 play, What We’re Up Against, just opened as the […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • January 19, 2019
    • Stages , Theater

    2018 in Review: What We Liked on Stage

    This isn’t a “best theater of 2018” list. We didn’t see everything. Most of our writers are freelancers, all with other gigs, and it’s hard for us to cover the […]

  • Third Coast Review Staff
  • December 27, 2018
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    There’s Little Brotherly Love But Plenty of Poteen in The Lonesome West by AstonRep

    The Lonesome West by Martin McDonagh is a story of two Irish brothers, locked in a codependent relationship of affection and hatred (mostly the latter). Throughout the course of the 100-minute […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • October 23, 2018
    • Stages , Theater

    Raven’s Suddenly Last Summer Tells Tennessee Williams’ Grisly Tale in a Garden

    Playwright Tennessee Williams is a master of his craft. He is skilled at conjuring up a time or place and creating a story that snares you in its web from […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • May 14, 2018
    • Stages , Theater

    Two Great Playwrights on the Cusp of Their Careers: Philip Dawkins’ The Gentleman Caller at Raven Theatre

    Tennessee Williams has been a local favorite for decades, ever since December 27, 1944, when Claudia Cassidy, the fearsome Chicago Tribune theater critic, said Williams turned the theater “into a […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • April 5, 2018
    • Stages , Theater

    Nice Girl at Raven Theatre: Sweet, Heartfelt Story of Four People Whose Lives Aren’t What They Hoped

    Josephine is the nice girl. She’s so nice that she remains living at home with her mother, working in a dead-end job, when she really wants to do what she […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • February 6, 2018
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