Bollywood baby! "The Merchants of Bollywood," an international musical theater and dance spectacular that tells the tale of the powerful Indian filmmaking family known as the Merchants, makes its North American debut this weekend at the Audit...

Spectacu-Lar Choreographer Lar Lubovitch, a Chicago native and co-founder of the Chicago Dancing Festival, brings his namesake troupe Lar Lubovitch Dance Company back for a two-performance run at Millennium Park's Harris Theater for Music and...

Bliss blitz? During the first full season of the Lingerie Football League, the Chicago Bliss went undefeated before losing the championship to the Los Angeles Temptation at Lingerie Bowl VII. Now the Bliss are back for a second season, and th...

Free 'The Artist's Hand' The Robert T. Wright Community Gallery of Art at the College of Lake County hosts a new solo art exhibit by Gurnee native Carrie Schneider. "The Artist's Hand: Photographs, Film and Videos" is on display ...

Billy Croft started his entertainment career where most people start: at the bottom. There really was nowhere for him to go but up. So where did he wind up going? Down. Down to Nashville, Tenn., that is. Where unknown names in the music industry g...

During the school year, Chris and Beth Oechsel sometimes feel like bus drivers, carting their four children from one activity to the next. Everyone is pulled in a million directions and unfortunately, the activities rarely overlap. But that all chan...

Matt Boresi and Jeordano "Pete" Martinez - directors of the upcoming musical production of "H.M.S. Pinafore" - knew each other way back when Cousin Hebe wasn't a speaking part. Back when Boresi was a freshman at North Central College in 1993, hopin...

All ages are invited to experience a unique take on the Shakespeare comedy classic, "As You Like It," when Geneva's annual Shakespeare in the Park brings the Midsummer Theatre Troupe back to Island Park Saturday. Sit back on your blanket, enjoy your...

Turning a dream into reality can take a lot of sweat and greasepaint. Just ask Nora Manca, president and artistic director of Storefront Shakespeare, a new theater company which recently performed the first week of its very first production of Will...

Free Porsches on parade The Porsche Club of America Chicago region hosts its Porsche Club Concours, a car show featuring 30 to 50 vintage and modern Porsches, displayed outdoors in downtown Long Grove in the Towner Green area, across from the Villag...