B.D. Wong

Citing the need for financial responsibility and a desire to conserve resources for the 40th anniversary season, Victory Gardens Theater artistic director Chay Yew announced Monday that the venerable non-profit will have a 2013-14 subscription season of...

Thursday’s Highlights: 'Duets' at 8 p.m. on ABC...

THEATER REVIEW: "Yellow Face" ★★★ Through July 17 at the Chicago Temple Building, 77 W. Washington St.; Running time: 2 hours, 20 minutes; Tickets: $34 at 312-443-3800 or www.goodmantheatre.org In the 1990s, the prominent Asian-...

Marco Polo, the legendary adventurer now best known for spawning an obnoxious swimming pool game, will be the subject of a miniseries set to star a former "Lost" heartthrob. Ian Somerhalder, the dearly departed Boone on ABC's hit drama, will play Polo,...

Friday January 23, 1998      It's not "Free Willy" with a sea lion, but "Slappy and the Stinkers" is a harmless drop-off movie for the elementary-age boys not standing in line for "Spice World."      "Drop-off" as in drop off the kids at "Slappy," pay...

Wednesday October 8, 1997      "Seven Years in Tibet" opens not with a spectacular mountain vista, not with a shot of Lhasa's fabled golden-roofed Potala but with a single word, impressive in the size of its capital letters: BRAD. It's only a quirk of...

"We encourage the support of this unique natural resource," the producers of "The Salton Sea" piously state in the film's closing credits, though it is not at all clear how having the goodwill of a smug and tawdry film is going to help that natural...

Friday June 19, 1998      Memo to the gang at Walt Disney animation: Your formula is showing.      It's a fine formula, and as displayed in Disney's "Mulan," the latest in the self-replenishing stream of animated features from the studio, it produces...

Friday December 8, 1995      "Father of the Bride Part II" is as bright and shiny as a Christmas tree ornament and will likely be cause for holiday season cheer in many a family feeling overdosed on brutality and depravity on the screen.      The...