Alan Artner

WE've got plenty in our calendar of cultural best bets and artistic long shots SEPTEMBER Sept. 14 Chicago Jazz Ensemble at Jazz Showcase (every other Monday) Sept. 18 David Rousseve/REALITY...

Chicagoans of the Year. It has been a remarkable year for Chicago's cultural community, from the new Symphony Center to developments in the North Loop theater district to the many...

The coming week should be an enticing one for listeners who savor the work of female singers. Spider Saloff, a nationally noted Chicago cabaret artist, will present her Gershwin tribute,...

TV: True `Blue' The fine ABC detective drama "NYPD Blue" is in its fifth season, and murmur has it that it is growing formulaic and less than wholly engaging. But...

To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of moving pictures last year, the Los Angeles Museum of temporary Art organized the first-ever exhibition to explore the complex relationship between...

A Red Orchid Theatre is tackling John Ford's Jacobean tragedy " 'Tis Pity She's a Whore," with Dexter Bullard directing. Two key members of the team behind "Killer Joe," their...

Mary Zimmerman's "Mirror of the Invisible World," in which seven princesses of the East tell fascinating stories about love, continues through May 11 at the Goodman Studio Theatre. The project...

As the Soviet Union has become more of a distant memory, the works of Moscow painter Vasily Shulzhenko have taken on greater pathos. When he first exhibited here in 1990,...

Photographer Louis Stettner will be 75 this year, and to observe his landmark birthday the Lallak + Tom Gallery has mounted a small exhibition of contemporary silver prints from negatives...

The Broadway-bound touring revival of "Annie," starring Nell Carter as Miss Hannigan, will play in January at the Rosemont Theatre as part of the theater's 1996-97 Broadway subscription season. Joining...