The jazzmen sit on a sofa in a small New York apartment, transfixed by the image on the TV…
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/
Archibald Motley Jr. was not your average African-American male in 1914. The man who became a world-renowned artist and contributor…
Family secrets and dreams are explored in Raul Castillo’s “Between You, Me and the Lampshade” in a world premiere being…
Todd Rosenthal’s set design for The Hotelman Arms hotel in “The Upstairs Concierge” is quite handsome, done in Prairie Style…
The first time I saw a Tom Stoppard play was on my first trip to London in 1981. We saw…
“She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry” is a new film documentary that takes us back to the early days of…
“This Is Modern Art (based on true events)” is a provocative play intended for a “young adult” audience that raises…
“Tourists don’t want a coyote ugly … strip joint, they don’t want a parade INSIDE the Convention Center sponsored by…
A bare stage. There’s only a curtain, a stool, a pair of high-heeled shoes, and a trunk. But here three…
The setting is an insular Italian-American community on the Gulf Coast in 1950. Tennessee Williams’ play, “The Rose Tattoo,” is…
Four survivors sit huddled around a fire, which provides the only light on the scene. They’re dressed in grungy grays…
“Second City” didn’t spring full grown from that stage in Chicago’s Old Town in the 1960s. Sketch comedy and improvisational…