With a winter storm blanketing a large swath of the country, Hollywood had its quietest weekend of the year at the box office. The Amazon MGM sci-fi thriller “Mercy” dethroned “Avatar: Fire and Ash” from the No. 1 spot with $11.2 million in North America, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Former Chicago sports talk radio host and columnist Terry Boers died Friday at age 75, 670 The Score announced.
Fans of Broadway, circle this date: This season’s Tony Awards will take place on June 7 at its familiar home of Radio City Music Hall.
Charli xcx plays herself in “The Moment,” a meta mockumentary about the end of Brat summer and grappling with otherworldly success. “I was just really interested in telling this story about expectation,” Charli xcx told The Associated Press the day after “The Moment” debuted at the Sundance Film Festival.
Forty years ago Monday, the Monsters of the Midway became the kings of the NFL with a Super Bowl victory over the New England Patriots. Fans who made the trip to watch the game in New Orleans share their memories of the once-in-a-lifetime experience.
TimeLine Theatre and Broadway in Chicago deliver a compassionate, uproariously funny regional premiere of Jonathan Spector’s Tony Award-winning satire “Eureka Day.”
“I want to work with people I love. I want to work with theaters I respect,” says former Goodman Theatre artistic director Robert Falls, who returns to his artistic home to direct a contemporary adaptation of Philip Barry’s 1928 romantic comedy “Holiday.”