George Bernard Shaw

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once (s)he grows up. —Pablo Picasso * Too often in the daily business of living and working as adults we forget the joy of play for the sake of itself. It is unfortunate but true...

Clark Magnet High School Monday won its first ever Glendale Unified High School Scholastic Bowl, besting Hoover, Glendale and Crescenta Valley high schools in a friendly academic competition that annually pits some of the district’s best students...

Zift Socialist Noir By Vladislav Todorov, translated from the Bulgarian by Joseph Benatov Paul Dry Books: 185 pp., $14.95 paper Of all the places to set a story of intrigue, Bulgaria has served as a choice exotic location for many writers, among...

When Everyman Theatre was founded in 1990, the resident company included Kyle Prue, who went on to perform in two dozen works over the years. But in 2006, he moved from being in front of the spotlights to making sure the spotlights and everything else...

THEATER REVIEW: "Heartbreak House" ★★½ Through June 26 at Writers’ Theatre, 325 Tudor Court, Glencoe; Running time: 2 hours, 50 minutes; Tickets: $45-65 at 847-242-6000 or writerstheatre.org Of the Shavian masterworks, few are as...

Darko Tresnjak, a director who has worked frequently at Chicago Shakespeare Theater and other Chicago theaters, is the new artistic director of Hartford Stage, the theater announced Monday. Tresnjak's work was seen most recently in Chicago at the Bank of....

Mark Swed reviews Gustavo Dudamel's second "Brahms Unbound" program, a death-defying partnership of Steven Mackey's "Beautiful Passing" and Brahms' Requiem...

Kate Fry at Candida and Alan Schmuckler as Eugene in "A Minister's Wife" at Writers' Theatre in Glencoe in 2009. Casting has been announced for the New York transfer of Michael Halberstam's Writers' Theatre production of "A Minister's Wife," the......