Connie Lauerman

Music and poetry come together as the Bailiwick Repertory presents "In the Deep Heart's Core," a cycle of the poems of the Irish master poet William Butler Yeats adapted for...

The latest film by renowned French film director Bertrand Tavernier, "L.627," will have its Chicago premiere at the Film Center of the Art Institute on Friday and run through Jan....

Dr. Frank Gonzalez-Crussi, a Chicago pathologist who also writes, told the Tribune last year that his fantasy is "to be known as the guy who brought literature and medicine together,...

The National Jewish Theater in Skokie is presenting "Club Soda," a bittersweet comedy by Leah Kornfeld Friedman set in a post-World War II Brooklyn neighborhood where her young characters struggle...

A director's cut of "Arizona Dream," the first English-language film by award-winning Yugoslavian director Emir Kusturica, will have its American premiere Friday through Jan. 12 at the Film Center of...

The AIDS epidemic has cut an enormous swath of destruction through America, and the arts community has been particularly decimated. But if anything good can come out of this tragic...

Before there were cameras and video recorders, people in America often commissioned portraits as a record of their families by artists who traveled a circuit. Now widely collected and valued...

During the winter holiday season family dramas often come to the fore, whether it's a movie like "Little Women" or a real-life version over the Christmas dinner. ETA Creative Arts...

For the second consecutive holiday season, the Art Institute of Chicago is presenting a show, "Glad Tidings of Great Joy," that gathers 15 medieval, Renaissance and Baroque works of art...

The Lira Ensemble, the nation's only professional performing arts company specializing in Polish music, song and dance, has grown gradually in both size and reputation over the last decade. The...