Richard Christiansen

DANCE RIVER NORTH CHICAGO DANCE COMPANY From the Chicago show dance company, seven works from the repertory, including several pieces by retiring co-artistic director Sherry Zunker; Sunday at Centre East...

My family got our first television set in 1949. As best as I can recollect, it had a 10-inch tube -- big for those days -- which carried a shaky...

Court Theatre's schedule for its 2001-02 subscription season contains several new programming wrinkles. Besides offering its own two-piano version of "My Fair Lady," director JoAnne Akalaitis' staging of Friedrich Schiller's...

"You cannot get away from `Hamlet.'" It's true, especially since it comes from the mouth of Peter Brook, a director whose international reputation is based in large part on his...

Northlight Theatre has slated the Chicago premiere of "Everything's Ducky," loosely based on the Ugly Duckling, for its 2001-02 season in the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in...

Theater designers Virgil C. Johnson (costumes) and Donald Holder (lighting) are winners of the eighth annual Michael Merritt Awards for Excellence in Design and Collaboration. Johnson, whose most recent work...

Theater on the Lake, one of the city's best show-business bargains, has lined up nine shows for its summer season, most of them remountings of hit productions by Chicago's off-Loop...

ROCK RODNEY CROWELL One of new-country's best songwriters is out with his best album yet, "The Houston Kid"; Sunday at Old Town School of Folk Music, 4544 N. Lincoln Ave.;...

In his 40-plus years as an American playwright, Edward Albee has been proclaimed everything from sick to triumphant to dead to resurrected. He began auspiciously in 1959 with his acerbic...

Two of Chicago's smallest theaters, Lifeline and Eclipse, have captured a major share of nominations for the Joseph Jefferson Committee's 28th annual Citations Wing Awards honoring work by theaters without...