Richard Christiansen

For its spring engagement in the Shubert Theatre, Tuesday through April 16, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago has scheduled 13 works in four different programs. Prominently featured is "Petite Mort," a...

"American Beauty," which is up for eight Oscars this year, is the first film to be directed by Sam Mendes, the 34-year-old Englishman who, before making it, had never picked...

Quirky rockers John Linnell and John Flansburgh might be giants, but they are also definitely one of the hottest theme-songwriting teams in Hollywood. Linnell and Flansburgh, who are better known...

Q. How did the Drury Lane theaters in Evergreen Park and Oakbrook get their names? Are they related? A. Those theaters are named after the oldest operating playhouse in London,...

Presenting another in our series of guides that help you tell apart entities in the arts with similar names: "Smoke": Harvey Keitel stars in this independent film, released in 1995...

I've known Gerald Arpino for 30 years and more, and in all that time I don't believe I've ever come close to figuring him out. My most recent visit, made...

Joan Baez, still in exquisite voice and recently championing a new generation of folk songwriters such as Dar Williams, performs Saturday at the Hemmens Cultural Center in Elgin. Here is...

George Balanchine's "The Prodigal Son," created in 1929 for the Ballets Russes, with music by Sergei Prokofiev and scenery and costumes by Georges Rouault, enters the repertory of the Joffrey...

If it seems weird that Chicago will host both of its St. Patrick's Day parades this weekend, almost a week before the actual holiday, you can blame it on a...

Ballet Hispanico: For its Chicago debut, the 30-year-old, New York-based dance troupe presents an eclectic mix of commissioned works by three different cutting-edge choreographers: David Rousseve's "Something from Nothing," Ramon...