Art AIDS America Chicago is a monumental exhibition that explores how the AIDS crisis had an impact on American art and culture. The works on display, from the early 1980s […]
Christopher Wheeldon is a visionary; there’s no doubt about that. When I learned that he’d be dreaming up a revamped version of The Nutcracker featuring the Joffrey Ballet, I couldn’t resist a […]
A year’s end wouldn’t be complete without copious amounts of “best of” lists, right? That’s why we’ve saved our best for the last day of the year. The Third Coast […]
Stages Winter @ Rivendell Theatre Ensemble, 5779 N. Ridge Avenue January 7 thru February 11 This new play by Julie Jensen deals with end of life issues and the right […]
Beyond is a broad category. As such, it’s been hard to choose just three things that represent the best things we covered in Chicago this year. So much so, I may […]
I’m the damn fool who waits until the year actually ends before rolling out my Best Of… list every year, and that’s because I’m often able to squeeze in about […]
In 1953, as a senior at the Illinois Institute of Technology, a young John Massey offered to volunteer at the International Design Conference in Aspen, Colorado. Born in 1931, he […]
Third Coast Review has been in operation for almost a year. Our first anniversary is coming up in a couple of weeks. We’ve been collectively mulling over events of the […]
2016 is in its final days and we can leave it to the history books. It’s over. Whether this past year was atrocious or personally decent, let’s celebrate its end […]
My formative years were spent on nerdy endeavors. As such, while other 13-year-old girls were obsessed with boys, clothes and makeup, I was lost in space. I’d found Star Wars, […]
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera debuted at the Cadillac Palace Theatre, and I can’t give anything but a glowing review of this timeless love story. Rush […]
The debut feature from director Garth Davis (who helmed most episodes of the excellent series “Top of the Lake”) feels like it was designed in a laboratory for the express […]