Richard Christiansen

The Athenaeum Theatre, now in its eighth year under the operation of the enterprising producer Fred Solari, this season is presenting its seventh annual "Dance Chicago" festival, Nov. 3 to...

On a mission to present the plays of Arthur Miller over a period of several years, Actors Workshop Theatre this month is staging his 1994 drama, "Broken Glass." This is...

Fifty-two years ago, in a seminal work of film criticism published in Life magazine, James Agee wrote of the movies of Buster Keaton: "In a way his pictures are like...

CLASSICAL RAVINIA FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA Marvin Hamlisch conducts, with baritone Jubilant Sykes as soloist, in a pops concert at 7 p.m. Sunday. Pops maestro Erich Kunzel will be joined by pianist...

Goodman Theatre this season is starting a Stage Door Series, three evenings of background information and discussion about its productions. Director Frank Galati and his production collaborators begin with a...

Joseph Anthony Foronda, a veteran of the Broadway and touring versions of "Miss Saigon," is to take over the featured role of The Engineer Wednesday in the musical's current production...

THEATER `BUG' Cheap thrills, expertly delivered, in Dexter Bullard's well-cast staging of Tracy Letts' loony pulp fiction thriller cum sci-fi horror parable about the fatal attraction between a battered woman...

"Childe Byron," a prime example of what Romulus Linney calls his plays of "historical theater," deals with the life of George Gordon Lord Byron, the model of a 19th Century...

Bug could make you crazy -- in more ways than one. Tracy Letts' play, in an exciting production at A Red Orchid Theatre, is unsettling before it even begins. As...

"Kismet" opened on Broadway in 1953, when American musicals were still producing lavish operettas set in distant times in faraway places. Composers-lyricists Robert Wright and George Forrest had already scored...