The beauty of art and the tragedy of the climate crisis live side by side in a stunning new exhibit…
Nancy S. Bishop
Nancy S. Bishop is publisher and chief theater critic for Third Coast Review, a Chicago-centric online arts magazine. She also reviews books, movies, music, art and design. Nancy is a member of the American Theatre Critics Association and a 2014 Fellow of the National Critics Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. You can find her writing on pop culture at nancybishopsjournal.com. Follow her on Twitter @nsbishop. Author website: https://thirdcoastreview.com/
“Theater is dead. Long live theater.” That may be the theme of Nathan Alan Davis’ imaginative and puzzling new play, The…
Last Night and the Night Before at Steppenwolf Theatre is a tale of complex family relationships crippled by drug use and…
Antonio Edwards Suarez tells the story of his Latino/Black/Irish family in 80 poetic and emotional minutes of story and dance….
“Howards End,” the stunning new production by Remy Bumppo Theatre, weaves together strands of three families. The wealthy and elite Wilcoxes—father, sons…
Ensemble: An Oral History of Chicago Theater is a book you can enjoy in two ways. You can read it…
“Lottery Day” is a party with a guest list of nine. Mallory (a sizzling J. Nicole Brooks) has invited them to…
The blockbuster exhibit at the Whitney Museum of American Art could be called Andy Warhol—From A to Z and Back Again….
Four young women in a small-town Wisconsin bar, with a bowling alley beyond. It’s a story of their lives, their…
“Mies Julie” is a scorchingly sexy, shockingly violent adaptation of August Strindberg’s “Miss Julie,” transported from 1888 Sweden to 2012…
“The Originalist” profiles one term in the career of the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. The Court Theatre production,…