Richard Christiansen

The year 2000 brought a number of achievements, not the least by some Chicagoans in the arts community. For the 16th year, the Arts & Entertainment staff has chosen Chicagoans...

Movies For hard-core movie buffs, this is the year's biggest weekend: More than a dozen local premieres through Monday include both big holiday movies and last-minute Oscar contenders. High on...

Two weeks after seeing "King Hedley II" at the new Goodman Theatre, August Wilson's complex, imperfect, unmanageable new play still keeps buzzing about in memory. The latest in Wilson's ongoing...

In his later years, Jerome Robbins had the bearing and the manners of an autocrat. Perfect in posture, his angular face neatly trimmed with a closely cropped white beard, he...

Dance "The Nutcracker": Joffrey Ballet of Chicago's production of this annual holiday confection, framed in the 19th Century elegance of the Auditorium Theatre, goes far beyond routine pleasures, offering a...

January 2002 is the tentative opening date for Goodman Theatre's revival of Eugene O'Neill's "Long Day's Journey into Night.". Director Robert Falls and actor Brian Dennehy, collaborators at Goodman in...

Theater Originally staged in 1998 at the Royal National Theatre and later imported to Broadway in a grandly operatic, Tony-nominated production by director Trevor Nunn, "Not About Nightingales," Tennessee Williams'...

Heather Woodbury came to Chicago out of nowhere in 1998 to give the oddest, most amazing performance piece of the year. It was called "What Ever: An American Odyssey," and...

Because he has no popular film or television credits behind him, Simon Russell Beale is an actor not well known in the United States; but here, in his native England,...

"The Vagina Monologues," which set a box-office record at the Apollo Theatre in its initial five-week engagement, reopens there Wednesday with three actresses taking over the roles that author Eve...