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Improbably this week, Anne Hidalgo, the mayor of Paris, said she and her city intend to sue Fox News on the grounds that the famously opinionated cable news channel had claimed that certain …
When, in 1975, the movie director Ken Russell turned "Tommy," an album by The Who, into a film, catapulting the Pinball Wizard to further glory, he made one particularly notable change: He s…
Around 1950, a woman named Brownie Wise came to the attention of Earl Tupper, the inventor of a brand of airtight plastic containers designed to keep leftovers fresh. Wise (reportedly to be …
"Cape Fear," the 1991 thriller by Martin Scorsese, is perhaps best remembered, if it is remembered at all, for a creepy, finger-sucking seduction scene involving Juliette Lewis and Robert De…
For a quick lesson in how much the widespread expansion and acceptance of gay marriage has changed the culture of America, one need only stop in at A Red Orchid Theatre for "Accidentally, Li…
Penny Penniston has been writing plays in Chicago for two decades now. She's not wildly prolific, and most of her works have premiered " like her latest, "Keys of the Kingdom," now in its wo…
In the summer of 1968, Pete Townshend gave a lengthy interview to Jann Wenner of Rolling Stone about the future direction of The Who, Townshend's rock band. "We've been talking about doing a…
In the summer of 1968, Pete Townshend gave a lengthy interview to Jann Wenner of Rolling Stone about the future direction of The Who, Townshend's rock band. "We've been talking about doing a…
Never " surely " has the world come so powerfully to the defense of outre satirists as it did last Sunday in Paris. The march in defiance of those who, on Jan. 7, murdered writers and cartoo…
Never " surely " has the world come so powerfully to the defense of outre satirists as it did last Sunday in Paris.
NEW YORK " Were you to honeymoon in today's Las Vegas, you'd find hip European DJs have replaced crooners and Elvis, and showgirls about as rare on the Strip as a winning hand. But "Honeymoo…
In the business of commercial theater, there is no better week than the one roughly between Christmas and New Year. Just ask Disney. In that week in Chicago, the tour of "Newsies" pulled in …
In the business of commercial theater, there is no better week than the one roughly between Christmas and New Year. Just ask Disney. In that week in Chicago, the tour of "Newsies" pulled in …
NEW YORK " "Before people had faith," remarks one of the two characters in Nick Payne's head-spinning new Broadway play "Constellations," "people's lives were their own."
Last year's Tony Award-winning best musical, "A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder," is to kick off its first national tour in Chicago in September, it was announced Wednesday.
Even after 14 years, Chicago's Sketch Comedy Festival hovers below a lot of cultural radars. This is partly due to the glut of small festivals in early January; SketchFest competes both with…
The Disney musical "Newsies" had a front-page week in Chicago over the holidays. The nine performances at the Oriental Theatre in the week ending Jan. 4 grossed a whopping $2,012,723; Disney…
Social media, especially Facebook, profoundly has changed the way we announce death and/or its imminence, the way we find out about loss, the way we mourn, the language we use to comfort the…
A battle is brewing in the red-hot Southport Avenue corridor between a planned performance venue in the mode of New York's 54 Below cabaret, and a much-loved Irish bar of the old Chicago tra…
"Churchill," Ronald Keaton's hit, self-penned, one-man show about the iconic British wartime leader, is headed off-Broadway. Opening night at New World Stages in New York, 340 W. 50th St., i…
A multi-media, concert-style show designed to celebrate the movies of the late John Hughes " including such nostalgic titles as "Sixteen Candles," "The Breakfast Club," "Weird Science," "Pre…
"The Last Ship," the Broadway musical composed by (and based on the life of) Sting, is to close on Jan. 24, the show's producers announced Tuesday morning.
Julia Neary, an ebullient, energetic, ensemble-loving actress, a sought-after movement specialist and a dedicated educator with 25 years of distinguished work on the neighborhood stages of C…
The winter season in Chicago theater features festivals, large-cast epics and revivals with a twist. Out of the scores of shows opening in the next few weeks at Chicago theaters, here are 10…
In 2014 ... Chicago's Jessie Mueller snagged the role of Carole King in "Beautiful" on Broadway. By June, she had a Tony Award and the Mueller family was on its way to becoming a national th…
