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Richard Christiansen is that rare drama critic whose capacity for wonder has not abated despite 'a thousand and one' nights on the aisle. His love of theater is palpable on every page, in every anecdote, as is the pride he unabashedly takes in his city and in its talented sons and daughters. A Theater of Our Own is a colorful history of Chicago's rise to prominence on the American cultural scene but, perhaps more accurately, it is a celebration of live theater by one of its greatest champions. --Donald Margulies

Richard Christiansen is that rare drama critic whose capacity for wonder has not abated despite 'a thousand and one' nights on the aisle. His love of theater is palpable on every page, in every anecdote, as is the pride he unabashedly takes in his city and in its talented sons and daughters. A Theater of Our Own is a colorful history of Chicago's rise to prominence on the American cultural scene but, perhaps more accurately, it is a celebration of live theater by one of its greatest champions. --Donald Margulies

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Richard Christiansen has been an arts journalist for more than forty years, covering theater, dance, film, the visual arts, and a variety of arts and entertainment subjects in Chicago, the nation, and abroad. He began his career in 1956 as a reporter at the City News Bureau of Chicago and moved to the Chicago Daily News a year later. In 1978, he joined the Chicago Tribune as its critic-at-large, arts and entertainment editor, and, finally, chief critic and senior writer, a post he held until his retirement in 2002.

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