In “King Charles III”, Chicago Shakespeare stages a story of future history. Queen Elizabeth has just died and, finally, Prince…
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/
Nelson Algren Biography Explores the Writer’s Struggles with Life and Craft Nelson Algren was a star in Chicago’s bright literary…
Henry VIII’s sixth and last wife is probably the one you don’t remember. She was Katherine Parr, Henry’s third Catherine,…
The setting was once a large and elegant apartment on Riverside Drive in Manhattan. There’s a spacious living room and…
“Constellations,” the new two-character play at Steppenwolf Theatre, is certainly a nonlinear story. Marianne (Jessie Fisher) and Roland (Jon Michael…
“Haymarket: The Anarchist’s Songbook” takes us on a visit to a tragic but inspiring moment in Chicago history and does…
Goodman Theatre opened its Lorraine Hansberry Celebration Monday night with a new production of Hansberry’s last play, “The Sign in…
Mary Page Marlowe is an ordinary woman, living in US flyover country. (How I hate that term.) She has a…
Dynamite Divas, Black Ensemble Theater’s contribution to holiday celebrations, is subtitled “A Tribute to Women of Soul.” And…
In staging Noel Coward’s 1920s comedy, “Fallen Angels,” director Shannon Cochran has shaken it up and mixed a cocktail of…