Profile

Chris Jones is the editorial page editor of the Chicago Tribune after spending two decades as the Tribune’s theater critic, although he continues to cover the performing arts going forward. He received his PhD in theater in 1989 and has taught undergraduate and graduate classes for more than 25 years. He is the author of both Bigger! Brighter! Louder!, published by the University of Chicago Press, and Rise Up! Broadway and American Society from Angels in America to Hamilton, published by Bloomsbury/Methuen.