Gary Dretzka

Almost everyone in town agrees that the pilot process is, at best, unwieldy, and more often than not totally unreliable. Still, no one seems to be in any hurry to...

Get ready, Egypt. Here comes Stephen Sondheim, via Pegasus Players of Chicago. Next November, the plucky off-Loop theater that has produced many Sondheim musicals over the years will be taking...

Max Jacobson, whose job it is to observe and critique the increasingly eclectic restaurant scene in this booming desert metropolis, is the kind of down-to-earth foodie who isn't ashamed to...

If it seems weird that Chicago will host both of its St. Patrick's Day parades this weekend, almost a week before the actual holiday, you can blame it on a...

Q. In the new movie "Topsy-Turvy," about the genesis of the operetta "The Mikado," composer Arthur Sullivan repeatedly expresses weariness with author William S. Gilbert's reliance on what Sullivan calls...

Nov. 25, 1937 Ben Heppner and Jane Eaglen have been termed "the Tristan and Isolde for the new millennium," and you can hear them in those roles beginning Monday at...

Stroll down a street with Leslie Nielsen. You won't go far before someone will stop, shake the actor's hand and, as happened the other day at Dearborn and Hubbard Streets,...

On Friday, the glam-country band The Blacks plays the Museum of Contemporary Art. May we suggest these last-minute additions to the lineup? Red Red Meat, eclectic rock Orange 9mm,punk Yellowman,...

The first thing Denzel Washington's fans are likely to notice in his portrayal of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter is how buff he looks in his boxing trunks, especially in contrast to...

For at least a year now, Chicago-area television viewers may have been wondering why everyone else in the country seems to be receiving high-definition and other digital signals, but not...