4,886 stories by "Chris Jones"
NEW YORK " Michael Weller's adaptation of "Doctor Zhivago" begins at a Moscow cemetery, in winter. An air of gloom prevails. The titular hero of Boris Pasternak's 1957 epic novel " which is …
NEW YORKÂ "Â Stephen Adly Guirgis' "Between Riverside and Crazy" is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize in drama for 2015, it was announced today at Columbia University.
" "Fun Home," the gorgeously wrought and emotionally overwhelming new musical now playing on a newly open-hearted Broadway, is based on a graphic novel drawn in panels. And thus it can accom…
NEW YORK " "Fun Home," the gorgeously wrought and emotionally overwhelming new musical now playing on a newly open-hearted Broadway, is based on a graphic novel drawn in panels. And thus it …
These days at Second City, items of technology have replaced spouses and lovers as the chief antagonist, just as those items of technology have replaced spouses and lovers in real life. Or b…
Given its roots in hard work, solidarity and the stubborn persistence of creative expression, the Elton John musical "Billy Elliot" long has seemed to me a natural fit for the artists of the…
Anything, ideally, does not go when reviving "Anything Goes," the justly beloved Cole Porter musical from 1934 featuring assorted comedic shenanigans aboard an ocean liner. The SS American i…
Despite mixed reviews at its Chicago tryout last fall, "Amazing Grace," the resilient, spiritually minded musical about the life and times of the former slave-owner John Newton, and the…
Despite mixed reviews at its Chicago tryout last fall, "Amazing Grace," the resilient, spiritually minded musical about the life and times of the former slave-owner John Newton, and the …
NEW YORK - Perhaps it's the cheating of mortality, or our wish to keep our children young, or maybe our fear of the inevitable ravages of time on our bodies and psyches. But there is, it see…
Chef Homaro Cantu death: Boil down cooking to its essence and you have transformation. This theory is at the center of the art of Moto chef Homaro Cantu, who took his own life in Chicago.
Boil down cooking to its essence " and it is a distillate clearly essential to the human progression toward civilization " and you have transformation.
Here are some salient facts about the life of Rory Kinnear, the 37-year old author of the remarkable new play, "The Herd," now in its U.S. premiere at the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago.
The plight of those who risk exhaustion, exploitation, mules and snake bites to cross the border in the dark into America and pursue their dreams is not normally fodder for comedy. But the v…
NEW YORK " Jenny Steinberg, the full-figured older sister of the pretty-perfect bride whose chaotic nuptials make up the action of the highly entertaining new Broadway musical "It Shoulda Be…
In many dramatic works about race in modern-day America, the heinous institution of chattel slavery is seen as the original American sin, the moment when a decision was made by human beings …
In many dramatic works about race in modern-day America, the heinous institution of chattel slavery is seen as the original American sin, the moment when a decision was made by human beings …
NEW YORK " When the compelling choreographer Christopher Wheeldon fills the stage of "An American in Paris" with a beautiful ensemble of ballet-trained dancers, all of whom can act and sing,…
"Oklahoma!" is about America growing into adulthood. "The Sound of Music" pairs romance and family reconstruction with growing moral determination. But "Carousel," the most emotionally poten…
There is a storied, if recently dormant, tradition of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company picking up yearning new plays from small productions on the London fringes " emotional works about strug…
"Oklahoma!" is about America growing into adulthood. "The Sound of Music" pairs romance and family reconstruction with growing moral determination. But "Carousel," the most emotionally poten…
On the face of it, the now-notorious Indiana Religious Freedom Restoration Act would appear to be something a liberal secularist " or, at least, a liberal secularist with libertarian tendenc…
On the face of it, the now-notorious Indiana Religious Freedom Restoration Act would appear to be something a liberal secularist " or, at least, a liberal secularist with libertarian tendenc…
To say that Vanessa Hudgens, the apparent raison d'etre for the anemic, sterile " and, at times, rather creepy " revival of "Gigi" on Broadway is no Leslie Caron or Audrey Hepburn is probabl…
NEW YORK " To say that Vanessa Hudgens, the apparent raison d'etre for the anemic, sterile " and, at times, rather creepy " revival of "Gigi" on Broadway is no Leslie Caron or Audrey Hepburn…
