Richard Christiansen

Chicago already boasts an incredible variety of multicultural film festivals. One of the newest, and most ambitious, is the Israel Film Festival 2000, which continues through May 4 at the...

When the French-Canadian actor/director/playwright Robert Lepage premiered his "Geometry of Miracles" in 1998 at World Stage, Toronto's international theater festival, the production ran about 3 hours and its hero, the...

With $13 million granted by the Illinois General Assembly, the Auditorium Theatre Council is going ahead with plans for extensive modernization and preservation projects in the landmark building. The award,...

In a 30-plus career that includes theater, film and television, it's kind of amazing that Robert Klein still has it in him to do stand-up comedy. But Klein, who is...

If, as I do, you follow the history of performing arts, you know that Peter Hall for 45 years has been a much-applauded director of theater and opera. But not...

Randall Arney, whose term as artistic director of Steppenwolf Theatre ended abruptly with his resignation in 1995, is again an artistic director, this time at the not-for-profit Geffen (as in...

After more than a decade of offering original late-night shows in Lakeview, the Annoyance Theatre is losing its 300-seat theater at 3747 N. Clark St. The site is being sold...

"We didn't know where we were going; we were just going." Thatts Jon Jory, producing director of Actors Theatre ofLouisville, talking about his company's first annual Festival of New American...

You don't hear much about the National Endowment for the Arts these days, which may be just as well, since in recent years when the NEA made news, the adjective...

When I was a young man, playing old records, I listened to Walter Huston sing "September Song." In a quavering voice, barely able to carry a tune, he lamented, "Oh,...