Richard Christiansen

River North Chicago Dance Company is shuffling its management, with choreographer Frank Chaves taking over as sole artistic director at the end of the 2000-01 season. Sherry Zunker, who has...

WTTW-Ch. 11's one-hour holiday special of highlights from Joffrey Ballet of Chicago's "The Nutcracker" is going nationwide for the second year in a row, with air dates on the PBS...

The seventh annual $250,000 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, named after the acting sisters of film and stage, this year has gone to choreographer Merce Cunningham, 81. The prize honors...

Expectations cut boths ways. A little courtesy, please. Buying a ticket to a theater, dance or music performance initiates something of a contract between audience and performer. We pay the...

Ballet Joffrey Ballet of Chicago concludes its fall season in the Auditorium Theatre Thursday through next Sunday with a program of four works created by its artistic director, Gerald Arpino....

When it made its debut five years ago, "Xena: Warrior Princess," a syndicated program about a leather-clad, towering, fantasy-age female warrior, provoked plenty of guffaws inside and outside the television...

In their quest to learn more about their audiences -- and how to make those audiences grow -- most performing arts organizations go right to the source, polling their customers...

The title, "The Second City: Backstage at the World's Greatest Comedy Theatre," lets you know right away that this is not going to be a book that short on affection...

A last-minute booking is bringing a new folk work from the Georgian National Singing and Dancing Ensemble to the Cadillac Palace for an engagement Friday through Oct. 15. Also known...

Movies The first full week of the Chicago International Film Festival 2000 has another international smorgasbord of films and filmmakers. Some of the highlights: Lifetime Achievement Award for Lord Richard...