Mario Lanza

DORTMUND, Germany — At 5:30 p.m. backstage at a concert hall here a few weeks ago, a security guard delivers a small brown bag from a chocolate shop in Paris. Devouring the contents is not a folk-rock pixie and her gang of bearded sidemen but...

Al Jolson can still pack them in the theater, 86 years after ushering in "the talkies" and 63 years after his death. At least that's the idea with the tribute by The Broward County Film Society (also called FLiFF) to the man billed as "The World’s...

From the Pope's Christmas Day message to an airing of the memorable 1977 Jesus of Nazareth miniseries, here is some of the religious programming airing over the next few weeks, throughout the holiday season. All times Eastern. Check back for updates and...

Q: See if you can find out if the Villa Girgenti passed their pizza recipe out to anyone when they closed their place on Paulina. It was a '60s North Side high school hangout, and they had the best thin crust pizza ever. What a waste to no longer sell it....

Let the casting debates begin! Paul Giamatti will star as Hamlet next spring at the Yale Repertory Theatre, part of a lively Rep season that includes new works by Sarah Ruhl (with the Clean House playwright devising "a play in letters" from the...

Mother Dolores Hart, who lives a cloistered life at the Abbey of Regina Laudis in Bethelhem, CT, will walk the red carpet Sunday  in support of the Oscar-nominated documentary, "God Is The Bigger Elvis," about her life.Here is Frank Rizzo's interview from...

I'm a reluctant extrovert. I'm not withdrawn or reticent — after all, I majored in drama for a time in college — but neither am I entirely unfettered in public settings. I like being with people, but I also relish my alone time. During my...

Mark Swed reviews Los Angeles Opera's production of Gounod's “Roméo et Juliette," which features a new operatic dream couple -- Vittorio Grigolo and Nino Machaidze....

Identical twins Will and Anthony Nunziata want you to know that in at least one important way they are very different: their living styles. "I love Anthony but we're kind of like Oscar and Felix," TV's neat-and-messy odd couple, Will says. "He lives in...

My colleague at the Sentinel's Lake County edition wrote up this report about the Central Florida Lyric opera season: By Debbie Manis, Orlando Sentinel The Central Florida Lyric Opera and its production company, Music Live Inc., will kick off its 2010-...

News of the Central Florida Lyric Opera from my colleague Debbie Manis in the Orlando Sentinel's Lake County office: By Debbie Manis, Orlando Sentinel “Be My Love: A Tribute to Mario Lanza,” a tenor-turned-crooner in the 1950s who recorded...

Identical twins Will and Anthony Nunziata want you to know that in at least one important way they are very different: their living styles. “I love Anthony but we’re kind of like Oscar and Felix,” TV’s neat-and-messy odd couple,...