Clifford Terry

Talk about your dysfunctional families. Years ago, then-10-year-old Roemello Skuggs and his year-older brother, Raynathan, watched as their junkie mother died of an overdose. Their mom apparently had been turned...

There are Lifetime Achievement Awards and there are Lifetime Achievement Awards, but probably none has ever been presented to an artist as singularly flamboyant as Richard Penniman, who gave the...

"The Earth Club Live!" a musically-mixed concert featuring 14 Chicago-based groups performing everything from Irish flute tunes to songs of the Andes will be presented from 2 to 5 p.m....

`My Girl 2" is one of those movies in which a father condescendingly gives his 13-year-old daughter bowling tips, then tries to pick up a spare himself and blows it,...

In "The Destiny of Me"-Larry Kramer's largely autobiographical play currently at the Next Theatre Company in Evanston through Feb. 20-one actor in particular has been drawing rave reviews. The portrayal...

The work of a Dutch artist with a distinctive style-including "pornokitsch"-will receive its Midwest debut when the Arts Club of Chicago presents "Marlene Dumas: Works on Paper and Paintings" Wednesday...

It is 1952, a time of fedora-wearing and straight-up-martini-drinking. It is also a time of McCarthyism, and the FBI is right on the case. "We're fightin' communism," brags one member...

In theatrical circles, Monday nights are normally "dark," but that won't be the case this Monday, when the Pegasus Players turn over their O'Rourke Theatre space at Truman College to...

Over the last couple of years, devotees of Sunday morning talk shows surely came across James Carville, Bill Clinton's 1992 campaign manager, the so-called "Ragin' Cajun." With his crinkly eyes,...

A film written by expatriate director Roman Polanski that was shot in 1969 and never released-it was allegedly "lost" in Paramount's London vaults for the last two decades-will be presented...