Richard Christiansen

Television The Fox series "Ally McBeal," after an offputting, oddball last season, is back in the romantic comedy groove, helped in no small part by the temporary addition of rehabbing...

The street address and ZIP code have changed, from 200 S. Columbus Drive, 60603, to 170 N. Dearborn St., 60601; and in that shift of just a few blocks, there...

As the Goodman Theatre this week goes through the excitement of settling into its new home on Dearborn Street in the Loop, it's time for a respectful bow to the...

Dance - In an unusually busy Chicago dance season, the White Oak Dance Project's engagement at the Dance Center of Columbia College is a sold-out success before it opens this...

The new Goodman Theatre's series of inaugural celebrations peaks with a 26-hour open house, free and open to the public, that starts at 5 p.m. Friday. Centerpiece of the festivities...

In the new and endearing movie "Billy Elliot," an 11-year-old boy from northeastern England decides, against all odds, that he wants to be a ballet dancer. His widowed father and...

Nana Shineflug and Rosemary Doolas are old enough to remember the days when Ruth Page and MoMing were familiar names in Chicago dance. But the lady who for many years...

Television Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) is gone -- but he's hovering around somewhere. Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) is a reluctant believer -- and she hasn't said who got her pregnant....

The Art Institute of Chicago has acquired a masterly painting by Edvard Munch that had been exhibited only once in the last century. A nocturnal piece in blue, "Girl Looking...

The idea always has been to forge artist and audience into one communal whole; but for many years and in most cases, there has been a distinct physical division separating...