How do we look when we’re looking at art? That’s one of the intriguing facets of this gorgeous art tour…
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/
On a barren and worn wharf in Aulis, the Greek fleet waits to depart for battle in Troy….
The scene is a dingy therapist’s office in Dublin. Ian (Coburn Goss), a former priest, is preparing his new office…
“Four dead fellas, two dead cats … me hairstyle ruined! Did I miss anything?” That’s the culmination of Martin McDonagh’s…
Lahr and Martha Lavey, “Steppenwolf” artistic director, were seated on a stage dressed for the cluttered Irish bachelor-hoarder’s apartment for…
“David Bowie Is” Chicago Exhibit Reveals a Cultural Icon, Beyond the Pop David Bowie was born September 16, 1965. Actually,…
Tales of the whale—the commercial treasure and leviathan of the sea—and the sailors who set out in wooden ships…
Asher Lev is an artist, a round-faced, cherubic artist whose paintings horrify his deeply religious Hasidic parents and community….
Sometimes it’s best to ignore the source of an adaptation and let the new work stand on its own….
The work of a Chicago artist who won national and international fame is settled in at a small museum…
In a space the size of my bedroom, Oracle Theatre slaughters and carves up cattle, fights for workers’ rights, celebrates…
Sam Shepard is known for his in-your-face, verbally and physically violent brawls between brothers or between fathers and sons. His…
Do you remember your first look at the so-called Chicago Imagists in Chicago galleries in the ‘60s and ‘70s? Whether…
Seth Bockley is a Chicago-based playwright, playwright-in-residence at the Goodman Theatre and author of “Ask Aunt Susan,” which…