Ira Gershwin

1983-84 (Inaugural season) Guarneri String Quartet André-Michel Schub Jean-François Paillard Chamber Orchestra Washington Ballet Arden Collection of 19thh Century American Painting Ibram Lassaw Kander and Ebb's Chicago Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet...

"JERSEY BOYS," the show, came off well for the La Jolla Playhouse. The rock 'n' roll bio-play about Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons opened late in 2004 and soon after moved to Broadway, where it won a Tony Award for best musical and looks to keep...

Amway Shakespeare Opportunity Twitter of the Shrew will be at a site to be announced. The Shakespeariment will be at the Walt Disney Amphitheater at Lake Eola Park, 101 N. Rosalind Ave., Orlando. Details: 407-792-9421. Twitter of the Shrew: Feb. 14....

Paul Muldoon once said, "The point of poetry is to be acutely discomfiting, to prod and provoke, to poke us in the eye, to punch us in the nose, to knock us off our feet, to take our breath away." Muldoon is known for his Irish wit, masterly way with...

It's about a quarter past nine on a recent evening at Feinstein's at Loews Regency, the popular Manhattan supper club. About 60 well-dressed patrons are sitting at tables in the gold and burgundy-colored room, where the likes of Broadway's Patti LuPone...

Here are Harvey Granat's 10 favorites from the Great American Songbook and his comments: 1. "All the Things You Are," by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II -- "Beautiful marriage of words and music." 2. "Dancing in the Dark," by Arthur Schwartz and...

Mark Nadler is one of those rare live performers who appears to have taught himself to do anything and everything upon which anyone might ever shine a spotlight. This palpable desire to overachieve is one of his biggest assets and, based on a look at...

Little Edie is coming to Skokie. And a Broadway-bound "Russian on the Side" is coming to Chicago's Royal George Theatre. The Skokie-based Northlight Theatre is announcing Thursday that it has the rights to "Grey Gardens," the 2007 Broadway musical...

Events schedules frequently change. It's best to call the venue before you go. Annie Russell Theatre The theater is on the campus of Rollins College, 1000 Holt Ave., Winter Park. Season tickets are $50 and $60 for general audiences, $47 and $57 for...

Red Buttons, the impish former burlesque comic who became an early TV sensation and an Academy Award-winning character actor during a career that spanned more than seven decades, has died. He was 87. Buttons died today at his Century City home after a...

"This will be our year," Colin Blunstone sang at the Abbey Pub on Thursday, "took a long time to come." And how. It was Blunstone's first Chicago performance with Rod Argent since 1965, when they were in the Zombies and cracking the upper regions of the...

Jon Lovitz is spending the summer in New York appearing nightly onstage at the Music Box Theater in Neil Simon's "The Dinner Party," but his likeness meanwhile will soon be visible in multiplexes everywhere as one of six unwitting Las Vegas tourists-...