Judy Hevrdejs

Benicio Del Toro, the 6-foot-4-inch actor of the moment who has a Golden Globe win and an Academy Award nomination for his role as an undercover Mexican cop in the...

Twenty years after it flopped on Broadway, "Merrily We Roll Along," with music by Stephen Sondheim and a book by George Furth, has received an award as "best new musical."...

So long, Hollywood. Hello, Branson. That could be the unofficial tagline for George W. Bush's inaugural festivities in Washington this weekend. The official slogan is predictably patriotic: "Celebrating America's Spirit...

The musical "Rent" has found such a receptive audience in Chicago -- it has been staged here several times since its November 1997 local premiere -- that it will be...

NOT A DOCTOR BUT PLAYS ONE ON TV Returning from heart surgery, David Letterman brought his doctors and nurses onto the stage for a moving opening to his first show...

Flexibility is the key to successful wine shopping on the World Wide Web. That's what we found when we took a shopping list of 10 wines-three Bordeaux, two Italians and...

Sarah Anne McNear, most recently curator and assistant vice president of the La Salle Bank Photography Collection, has been named director of the Museum of Contemporary Photography of Columbia College...

Roosevelt University has changed the name of its performing arts school to the Chicago College of Performing Arts. The name change, announced last week, is part of a reorganization of...

Which character in "Sex and the City" do you resemble? A personality profile on the Web helps answer that question. Here's a sampling of what the wildly popular site wants...

The Art Institute of Chicago has acquired a masterly painting by Edvard Munch that had been exhibited only once in the last century. A nocturnal piece in blue, "Girl Looking...