Connie Lauerman

If you and your child need a time out from each other while you're Christmas shopping on Michigan Avenue this weekend, the Terra Museum of American Art has just the...

Finally, a rare opportunity to wear blue jeans to a symphony orchestra performance. The Illinois Philharmonic presents "Cowboy Classics," its annual Pops Concert at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Center...

They came from 41 nations around the world, and from 41 cities across the United States, to address a critical question as the 20th Century draws to a close: Can...

Teachers are talent's midwives. They can't make a dancer out of someone with two left feet or singers out of the tone deaf, but they are absolute necessities for people...

It would not have been surprising if Jean Houston had gone into show business. As she puts it, "My life began in a gagman's riff." Her comedy writer father, Jack,...

Dance has always been a part of choreographer Joel Hall's life. "In the black community everybody dances," he says. "It's a part of our culture, so I always danced." But...

For the very first time, Chicago's Chinese community is inviting the general public to attend Chinatown's annual Moon Festival, a traditional celebration previously restricted to the Chinese. The Moon Festival,...

Northlight Theatre opens its 21st season with "A Perfect Ganesh" by Terrence McNally, one of the country's most acclaimed playwrights, who wrote the Tony Award-winning "Love! Valour! Compassion!" "A Perfect...

In the midst of constant news of crime, dysfunction and destruction, it would be easy to lose faith in humanity, but a visit to "Chicago Portraits," a photography exhibit at...

Ten years after completing "Shoah," his landmark epic film of the Holocaust, director Claude Lanzmann has made "Tsahal" (the Hebrew acronym for Israel Defense Forces), an exploration of what he...