Please enjoy Part 2 of our conversation with Chicago International Film Festival Artistic Director Mimi Plauche; read Part 1 here. So what are the films that are probably under people’s […] ...

Hayward, Gift Theatre’s world premiere play, begins during a funeral. The widow sits, veiled and clad in white, in the front row with the audience. Her four children are on […] ...

It’s the penultimate weekend before Halloween so there are only a few more days left to enjoy all the spooky goodness Chicago has to offer! So get your best costume […] ...

Theatre Above the Law’s world premiere of Grimm reimagines the familiar fairy-tale characters of the Brothers Grimm within the intimate confines of its Rogers Park venue. Michael Dalberg’s script ...

Screenshot: Soggy Froggy Playdate Season 3 is here. And even though the console and all of its accessories are currently sold out on the Playdate store—which is a bummer; I […] ...

Kenji Tanigaki is a Japanese-born stuntman, stunt coordinator, fight coordinator, and director whose latest work, The Furious, might be the greatest action movie in the last 20 years. After training ...

Subscribe to Third Coast Review’s weekly highlights for the latest and best in arts and culture around the city. In your inbox every Friday afternoon. During its early years, the building was the home ...

When Julie and Lou Rubin opened the first Hometown Coffee & Juice in Glencoe in 2018, their goal was simple: create the kind of neighborhood gathering place they felt their community was missing. The ...

Our evening at The Smith was one to remember, and thank goodness they have a photobooth in their basement so we could preserve our post-meal glee. My partner and I came to the Smith Restaurant & Bar ...

There are not many better ways to spend a warm summer evening than at Ravinia. The crowd is mostly adults from the Boomer and Generation Jones years. I was set to see Ray LaMontagne in the summer of ...

When you break down director David Ayer’s latest, Heart of the Beast, it’s about two seasoned war veterans helping each other though post-war trauma; it just so happens that one of these former ...

With the looming fear of rain coming the rest of the weekend, day one of Riot Fest stayed mostly dry for its fun opening lineup. The layout of the fest looks to its past and spreads things out a bit, ...