Connie Lauerman

`The Pirates of Penzance" is a perennial musical comedy, always lively and entertaining. It was a megahit when it premiered on Broadway in 1879, and within two months four road...

Desperate, throw-caution-to-the-wind attraction is a staple of cinema. So are rebellion and first love. British director Antonia Bird's "Mad Love" has all of it. Set in contemporary Seattle and New...

Even if you're not getting married this June, you can celebrate the traditions that cultures around the world have used to cement the marriage bond, throughout the month at the...

Borealis Theatre Company, formerly the Actors Center of DuPage, will be in residence this summer at Aurora University. A partnership was forged in an effort to bring professional theater to...

The second annual Del Corazon Festival, a celebration of Mexican culture presented by the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum that began in April, continues until June 2 with a rich...

At 5 feet 8 inches and 135 pounds, Joe Falocco, an experienced Shakespearean actor, figures it's unlikely anyone else would ever think of casting him as Henry V. But that...

Chicago's rich immigrant heritage is visible on a daily basis in the faces on the "L," the cacophony of languages on Uptown streets, the culinary delights in ethnic eateries. But...

Mention the name of the National Endowment for the Arts to a staunch political conservative and that person is likely to think first of Andres Serrano's crucifix image submerged in...

Lanford Wilson was one of the first Off-Off-Broadway experimental playwrights to achieve commercial success in Off-Broadway and regional theaters. But before the Missouri-born Wilson mustered the courage to face New...

There is still one more week to catch "Get Ready," a play about a 1950s singing group called the Doves, at ETA Creative Arts, 7558 S. South Chicago Ave. The...