John Webster

Blagojevich stepping into another world

2012-03-11 00:00:00

When he surrenders at a federal prison outside Denver this week, Rod Blagojevich will trade his beautiful bungalow on a corner lot in Ravenswood Manor for a dormitory or small cell with a metal-frame bunk bed. Blagojevich made close to $150,000 a year as...

New seasons at A Red Orchid, Strawdog

2011-06-13 16:32:39

Diet Proposals Often Refuted, Ignored

2010-07-20 00:00:00

Every five years the American public gets a newly tweaked directive on what we're supposed to be eating. And every five years the American public largely ignores it. For example, the 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommend we eat 2 1/2 cups of...

Shakespeare in Love

1998-12-11 00:00:00

Friday December 11, 1998 ��"Shakespeare in Love" is a ray of light in a holiday film season that was starting to look as gloomy as the scowl on Ebenezer Scrooge's face. A happy conceit smoothly executed, this is one of those entertaining confections...

Movie review, 'Shakespeare in Love'

1999-06-22 00:00:00

When you see "Shakespeare in Love," prepare to be ravished. If, for the playwright himself, all the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players, then this splendrous new movie -- which imagines a wild romance between the Bard of Avon and a...

'Hotel'

2003-07-25 00:00:00

Orson Welles once wrote of Hollywood, "a genuine individual is an outright nuisance in a factory." No one knew better than Welles did just how scorned genuine individualism can be in Hollywood — even in the most putatively independent of realms. But...

'Coarse' is a smooth spoof

2001-11-23 00:00:00

Across Chicago's sprawling tundra of off-Loop theater, where most artists are determined to put on a show at all costs, audiences get to experience their fair share of sublimely truthful and abysmally amateurish productions. Shakespeare's Motley Crew, a...

"The Duchess of Malfi" at Writers' Theatre on Tudor Court. A stage adaptation of John Webster's early 17th Century tale of espionage, betrayal and murder, sparked by a woman's politically disastrous decision to marry her servant.

2006-05-25 14:19:48

The colorful bounty of Tuscany John Webster and traveling companion Frank Carrillo of North Hollywood were on an eight-day tour of Italy when Webster spotted this setting outside a store in Sienna. "What I really liked about this picture were the vivid colors," said Webster, of Signal Hill.

2005-11-17 15:25:10