Edmond Rostand

Although 4th of July weekend movie audiences have long declared their preference for lots of explosions and special effects, the importance of the written word—recall that a beautifully written and bravely signed document kicked off all the hoopla&#...

After a summer of countless theater festivals and a very boring September, the fall theater season is slowly flickering back to life -- although the threat of a labor lockout overshadows a busy fall season. As we anxiously await word, three back-to-back...

A monster and a mermaid would seem to have the new musical market cornered on Broadway this fall, but it is plays rather than musicals that - surprisingly - are dominating the first half of the season. "The lineup of production for the fall season should...

(C+) The best thing about Moliere (and Becoming Jane, too), is that it makes you appreciate just how witty and transporting Shakespeare in Love really was. Director and co-writer Laurent Tirard uses a hazy patch in the biography of high-farce master...

"The Romance of Magno Rubio," a rather beguiling contemporary play now at the Victory Gardens, has an all-Filipino cast of characters, is performed entirely by a group of actors with Filipino roots, and deals with the travails of lovelorn migrant...

More than any other production this year, the Court Theatre/Redmoon Theater's "Cyrano" gives Chicago audiences a richly provocative interpretation of a classic, alive and challenging on many levels. This is not your stuffy textbook swordsman from...

4 stars (out of 4) Jean-Paul Rappeneau's "Bon Voyage" is the sort of movie we don't see often enough anymore. A French romantic comedy-mystery-adventure set during the hectic days after Germany's crushing pre-WWII battlefield victory, it's brilliantly...