Adelina Patti

Patti LuPone steps out onto Main Street in a knee-length coat made of leather and mink. The reversible fur is accessorized with a matching maroon stole and red suede boots. It's the sort of outfit that would be perfect for a 40th high school reunion, if...

The commission to design the Auditorium building went on this date to two men, engineer Dankmar Adler and his partner, architect Louis H. Sullivan, who had shown an extraordinary originality in his use of ornamentation and artificial lighting. It was...

At 19, the diva Adelina Patti was already acclaimed on two continents when she sang ``Home, Sweet Home'' at the White House for Abraham and Mary Lincoln in 1862. In mourning for their son, Willie, who had died of typhoid fever, the Lincolns were moved...

OFF-BROADWAY REVIEW A FEW STOUT INDIVIDUALS. By John Guare, directed by Michael Greif. Signature Theatre Company, 42nd Street east of 11th Avenue. Through June 2. Seen at Friday's preview. To John Guare - as to most of us - Ulysses S. Grant is basically...

John Howard Payne was a theater critic at age 14, a playwright soon after and then a child star. He was a friend of Washington Irving and Charles Dickens, a staunch defender of the Cherokee Indians as they were forced from their homes in Georgia to...