Richard Christiansen

There are many steps remaining -- including the current stagehands' strike -- before it becomes a reality, but Chita Rivera may star in the pre-Broadway engagement of the musical version...

Bit by bit, the Broadway musical is staking out its place in the concert halls and opera houses of the world. It's a slow movement, one that has been going...

Jazz Few musicians have done more to champion the baritone saxophone than Gerry Mulligan, whose death nearly five years ago left a void in the world of jazz. Though no...

`Metamorphoses," Chicago director Mary Zimmerman's stage adaptation of the myths of Ovid, has scored big in nominations for honors at the April 2 awards ceremony of the Los Angeles Drama...

Stephen Sondheim, a major force in Broadway musicals for more than 40 years, is the subject of a five-year music theater initiative to be launched by the Ravinia Festival this...

Chicago playwright Jim Sherman ("Beau Jest," "The God of Isaac") is going to Seoul as a visiting professor at the National University of the Arts. Sherman, whose first play, "Magic...

Twenty years after it flopped on Broadway, "Merrily We Roll Along," with music by Stephen Sondheim and a book by George Furth, has received an award as "best new musical."...

With a combination of resignation and pride, Lee Blessing says he has not had a regular paycheck since 1973. He is, in short, a playwright, and one who has had...

Art The artists are certainly not as well known in North America as Edgar Degas or Claude Monet, yet "Beyond the Easel: Decorative Painting by Bonnard, Vuillard, Denis & Roussel,...

Theater - Performing Arts Chicago, a prime presenter of theater and music imports, is inaugurating its PAC Studio Series with "The Memoirs of Gluckel of Hameln," a piece in Yiddish...