Richard Christiansen

Meanwhile, what of Ballet Chicago? The Joffrey Ballet of Chicago has completed its spring season in the Auditorium Theatre to general acclaim. Hubbard Street Dance Chicago is in the midst...

ROCK GARY NUMAN The robot-rock pioneer lives! Saturday at House of Blues; $18.50; 312-923-2000. THE ORB Psychedelia meets the dancefloor in British deejay Alex Paterson's cosmic vision; Monday at Metro;...

"Hedwig and the Angry Inch," the 1997 Off Broadway hit about the sex-changed, cross-dressing singer of a small rock band, is due here next month as the first stage production...

I don't believe it's possible to exaggerate the importance to Chicago cultural life of the opening of The Second City in 1959. Beyond the fact that this small cabaret in...

ROCK DAVID THOMAS & TWO PALE BOYS Pere Ubu's mountain of a front man is among rock's wiliest and most subversive entertainers: the avant-gardist as song and dance man; Friday...

In 1998, the American playwright Charles L. Mee attended the massive retrospective covering the works of the American artist Robert Rauschenberg at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Mee, totally...

If you were alive and kicking and aware of the world around you in 1963, then you knew about "Cleopatra." It was a movie, an epic, a blockbuster, and, above...

ARCHITECTURE MICHIGAN AVENUE LANDMARKS The proposal to designate 12 blocks of Michigan Avenue as a landmark district is the subject at Friends of Downtown's monthly meeting on Thursday. The speakers...

Criss Henderson, executive director of Chicago Shakespeare Theater, will be off to Washington, D.C., April 9 to receive the Arts Administrator of the Year Award in ceremonies at the John...

Chicago's reputation as a launching site for big musicals, enhanced by this winter's pre-Broadway run of "The Producers," is set for a further boost next season with the premiere of...