Nancy Maes

"From the time cavemen came back (from the hunt) and said, `You should've seen the woolly mammoth that got away,' people have told stories," says Nancy Donoval, a professional storyteller...

Evanston's Ethnic Arts Festival covers the cultures of five continents. Two stages will present dance from many places including Africa, Greece and Puerto Rico and music from the Old Country...

The fleet-footed dancers performing as part of "Chicago on Tap II" will demonstrate that percussive dancing knows no boundaries. This international festival includes Flamenco artist Maria Pages, Irish step-dancer Liam...

Scot culture in all its off-kilter eccentricity will be celebrated Saturday at the 10th Annual Chicago Highland Games & Scottish Festival. There will be lots of throwing events, in which...

Performers in the second annual Chicago Fringe and Buskers Festival promise to take audiences to the edge. The names of some of these non-conformist artists and their acts say it...

A recent musical anthology gave Beatles' fans an aural history of the Fab Four. Now an exhibition of photographs offers visual mementos of the group's early years. Thirty-two photos by...

Harriet Tubman's efforts to help her people escape from slavery through the Underground Railroad were so heroic that she earned the nickname "Moses." Her experiences in leading blacks to the...

To break or not to break -- that is the question for Toy Theatre, a dramatic display of glass puppets and harlequin figures by New York artist Karen LaMonte. The...

More than 85 million children around the world learned to read English from the Dick and Jane primers between 1930, when they were first published, and 1965, when they fell...

When the spring session of classes begins April 8, Lill Street Studios will combine clay-making with songs and stories in classes for toddlers; teach older kids the techniques of cartooning,...