John Guare

AS EVERY CARBON-BASED life form on this planet surely knows, Barack Obama, the junior Democratic senator from Illinois, is running for president. Since making his announcement, there has been no end of commentary about him in all quarters — musing...

Hoping to give audiences something to buzz about in the expanded lobby yielded by its $30-million renovation, the Mark Taper Forum will offer a 2009 season that includes revivals of the Broadway musicals "Pippin" and "Parade" and Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya"...

AIRTRAN ADDS MILWAUKEE FLIGHTS: AirTran Airways is adding four more destinations from Milwaukee's General Mitchell International Airport, the airline has announced. In May, AirTran will begin daily non-stop flights between Milwaukee and Branson, Mo.; St....

It's not a matter of temperature: Bruce Norris' "The Pain and the Itch" is just as icy as his previous Steppenwolf Theatre Company-produced works, "The Infidel" (2000), "Purple Heart" (2002) and "We All Went Down to Amsterdam" (2003). Nor is it a matter...

Patricia Clarkson is sitting on a balcony overlooking the pool at the Beverly Hills Hotel, reminiscing about — and recuperating from — the Oscar nominees' luncheon. For the occasion, she's wearing a black Alberta Ferretti wraparound dress...

NEW YORK - Against a setting sun, a clarinetist blows fiercely into his instrument, the sound more anguished cry than musical note. Dancers, moving as slowly as a dream, climb atop a tomb-like vessel piled high with dark, pebbly dirt, alternately...

Friday June 9, 1995      The Brooklyn cigar store run by Auggie Wren (Harvey Keitel) in "Smoke" is Schmooze Central for the neighborhood gabbers and ne'er-do-wells. Auggie presides over the fray like a particularly indulgent bartender. He massages the...