Richard Christiansen

In the latest salvo of a long-running battle of words, politics and money involving Berlin's three opera houses, Daniel Barenboim has handed the cultural authorities an ultimatum. Musical America correspondent...

Next Sunday evening, a capacity audience of invited guests in the Winter Garden Theatre in New York will attend the 7,485th -- and final -- performance of "Cats" on Broadway....

There are many reasons for a dancer's decision to stop dancing -- injury, illness, the wish to start a family -- but if you are a dancer who has almost...

If you want to see "Parade," winner of 1999 Tony Awards for best book and best score of a musical, you can see it in Memphis or in Green Bay,...

"Shane. Shane. Come back." That's all the dialogue there is on the printed page for the final scene of the movie "Shane," and yet, if you ask people who saw...

Living in Chicago, and watching the ebb and flow of its performing arts community, you get used to the fact that some people you hoped would stay are going to...

Theater The phenomenal success of "Arsenic and Old Lace" in the American theater is the stuff legends are made of. According to this particular legend, Joseph Kesslering wrote his play,...

First the Grinch. Now, the Cat. Two years ago, the wife-husband team of Jennifer Morrish Tunberg and Terence O. Tunberg created a minor publishing triumph with their Latin translation of...

Thomas Wikman will step down as music director of Music of the Baroque at the end of the group's 30th season in May. Executive director Karen Fishman said the search...

Barbara Leaming, author of biographies of Orson Welles, Roman Polanski, Rita Hayworth and Bette Davis, turned her attention in 1995 to another movie icon, Katharine Hepburn, and the result, just...