Richard Christiansen (critic)

Richard Christiansen is an American theatre and film critic, who was "the chief theatre reviewer of The Chicago Tribune " from 1978 to 2002 and the "leading critical voice in Chicago theatre for more than three decades".[1] He became the chief critic and senior writer of the newspaper.[2] He previously worked for the Chicago Daily News from 1957 to 1978. He joined the staff of The Chicago Tribune immediately following the demise of the Chicago Daily News in 1978. The second-floor studio theatre at the Victory Gardens Theater was named after him in 2010. Christiansen is the author of the book A Theater of Our Own: A History and a Memoir of 1,001 Nights in Chicago, which was published by Northwestern University Press in 2004.[3]

Christiansen is also noted for being instrumental in the development of Chicago's grassroots theatre movement starting in the 1960s.[4]

References

"Richard Christiansen, Dean of Chicago Theatre Critics, to Retire in 2002". Playbill.com. April 30, 2001. Retrieved August 30, 2015.
Fischer, Heinz-D; Fischer, Erika J. (1 January 2003). Complete Historical Handbook of the Pulitzer Prize System 1917-2000: Decision-Making Processes in all Award Categories based on unpublished Sources. Walter de Gruyter. p. 434. ISBN 978-3-11-093912-5.
"About Richard Christensen". Carleton College. Retrieved August 15, 2021.
Fodsick, Scott D. (March 2002). "Newspaper Critic Shapes Chicago Style of Theater" (PDF). Newspaper Research Journal. 23 (2–3): 114–128. doi:10.1177/073953290202300210 – via Open University.

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[1] "Richard Christiansen, Dean of Chicago Theatre Critics, to Retire in 2002". Playbill.com. April 30, 2001. Retrieved August 30, 2015.

[FischerFischer2003-2] Fischer, Heinz-D; Fischer, Erika J. (1 January 2003). Complete Historical Handbook of the Pulitzer Prize System 1917-2000: Decision-Making Processes in all Award Categories based on unpublished Sources. Walter de Gruyter. p. 434. ISBN 978-3-11-093912-5.

[3] "About Richard Christensen". Carleton College. Retrieved August 15, 2021.

[4] Fodsick, Scott D. (March 2002). "Newspaper Critic Shapes Chicago Style of Theater" (PDF). Newspaper Research Journal. 23 (2–3): 114–128. doi:10.1177/073953290202300210 – via Open University.