Richard Christiansen

DANCE ZEPHYR DANCE The all-female company's spring concert offers works by Michelle Kranicke and Emily Stein; Thursday through Saturday at the Dance Center of Columbia College, 1306 S. Michigan Ave.;...

It has taken about seven years for the musical "Muscle" to reach Chicago for its world premiere, but now that it's here, with a blue-ribbon creative team in charge, it...

Bill Buford's 1992 book, "Among the Thugs," was a compelling account of the writer's misadventures with English soccer hooligans. Next Theatre turned the book into a widely acclaimed play, which...

By tradition, Memorial Day has marked the closing of the theater season, just as Labor Day has signaled its beginning. In Chicago, where the season never seems to end, this...

And the winner of Best Musical of the Year is "Ragtime." No, not on Broadway, but on tour, with the first National Broadway Theatre Awards, sponsored by the trade organization,...

John Culbert, lighting and scenic designer who has served as acting dean of The Theatre School, DePaul University, since the death of director Michael Maggio last summer, is to assume...

JAZZ NICHOLAS PAYTON The magnificent New Orleans trumpeter pays homage to Louis Armstrong; 8 p.m. Friday in Symphony Center, 220 S. Michigan Ave.; $20-$43; 312-294-3000. FAREED HAQUE One of the...

We are about to get, at last, a good chance to hear the music of Jason Robert Brown. The 31-year-old composer won the Tony Award for the best score of...

The long-awaited news on "Long Day's Journey Into Night" has come through. Goodman Theatre has put the Eugene O'Neill masterpiece on its 2001-2002 season schedule, with Robert Falls directing and,...

Chalk up another one for "The Producers." The Mel Brooks musical, which holds a record-breaking 15 nominations in the annual Tony Awards competition for Broadway shows, has been voted best...