John Webster

Swordfish is among the protein sources recommended in the U.S. Department of Agriculture's new food pyramid, even though two other federal agencies say the seafood is so contaminated with mercury that pregnant women and young children shouldn't eat it....

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...

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...

In Preview INTRIGUE WITH FAYE. Modern relationship drama by Kate Robin in which an urban couple attempts to cultivate trust and intimacy by videotaping one another's every move; Benjamin Bratt and Julianna Margulies star, previews to June 11 opening, MCC...

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...

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...