Sid Smith

To call this fall the most exciting autumn in dance in a quarter of a century is no exaggeration. There's the return of a long-absent troupe of world renown (the...

Gail Kalver, executive director of Hubbard Street Dance Chicago and a widely respected figure on the Chicago arts scene, is resigning after nearly 23 years with the troupe. "I haven't...

A touching but bleak and profoundly sad Spanish-language documentary about a 75-year-old woman persuaded by her seemingly well-meaning children to give up her ramshackle home after 53 years. The house...

FESTIVALS 22ND ANNUAL PRINTERS ROW BOOK FAIR: The largest free literary event in the Midwest features new, used, antiquarian and specialty books for sale, author readings and signings, panel discussions,...

The Joffrey Ballet is altering the content of next spring's repertory program set to run April 25-May 6 at the Auditorium Theatre. The troupe is replacing the originally scheduled founders'...

After a lot of hyper-melodrama, "Grey's Anatomy" settled down Monday to finish its two-part season-ender with a return to its reliable formula of bathos and soap opera. Everybody's the same,...

"Teammates," convict Theodore Bagwell (Robert Knepper) said with his habitually nasty smirk, "'til the end." Well, not exactly. They're off. And running. But not together and not happily, all left...

Aras Baskauskas, who won the $1 million prize on "Survivor: Panama, Exile Island" over the weekend, is already figuring out how to spend his new fortune, People.com reports. "[I'll] pay...

And so the Bartlet era ends. For those who have no idea what that means, and as a reminder to fans who've drifted in recent years, the term of Josiah...

Tap dancer Savion Glover will return to perform and participate in the Chicago Human Rhythm Project's "Rhythm World" festival this summer. Glover will dance Aug. 6 at Northwestern University's Josephine...