Richard Christiansen

Illinois Shakespeare Festival at Illinois State University: NORMAL, Ill. -- The Illinois Shakespeare Festival, flourishing in its 24th season, is really all Shakespeare this summer. All three plays in repertory...

About four years ago, at a benefit they were attending, John B. Schwartz and his wife, Dianne, decided they wanted to take tango lessons. Schwartz, 61, a personal injury lawyer...

ART `ARTISTIC COMMUNITIES' "Artistic Communities: Mary MacMonnies Law and Frederick MacMonnies in Chicago and Giverny," sculpture and paintings by two artists who came to prominence in the 1893 Columbian Exposition;...

`Me and My Girl' at Theatre at the Center Bill Snibson, the Cockney hero of "Me and My Girl," first won an audience's heart in London in 1937. A happy-go-lucky...

"Sweet Shot," as presented by the small off-Loop Thirsty Theater, is something of a stunt -- but it's a stunt that's carried off gracefully and without damage. The program consists...

Pegasus Players, venturesome off-Loop theater, is extending its reach to Jordan, planning a Feb. 9-23, 2002, tour of the Middle East nation in an original work commissioned by the American...

Ann Reinking can't recall the exact date she came in to work on "Fosse," but she does remember that when she arrived in Toronto for her job, "It was 8...

The power of theater is in its language, and when that language becomes too powerful, or too disturbing, or too dissonant, it can create a strong and critical reaction among...

"A Going Concern," in its United States premiere by Famous Door Theatre, gets the cracking good male ensemble performance it needs and deserves. Stephen Jeffreys' semiautobiographical drama concerns three generations...

The Chicago Human Rhythm Project's Aug. 2 gala program of tap and percussive dance at the Museum of Contemporary Art also will feature presentation of four JUBA! awards for individuals...