Peter Billingsley

National tours of two Broadway smashes, the musical "Book of Mormon," and the epic play featuring life-sized puppetry, "War Horse," highlight the seven-show 2013-14 season at Hartford's Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts. Those two shows, Tony...

The week's schedule will be filled with Christmas specials and movies. Old favorites will be back in a big way. 1. TBS starts its 24-hour marathon of “A Christmas Story” at 8 p.m. Monday. The 1983 comedy continues to charm the generations....

On Christmas Eve, your choices include classic movies, holiday music and a lot of reruns. A few highlights: PBS' “Antiques Roadshow” replays hour two of its stop in Orlando at 8 p.m. The goodies include an animator's plaster model of...

Despite its numerical designation, the recently released A Christmas Story 2 isn't the only way to see the continuing adventures of Ralphie Parker. Did you know, for instance, that Jean Shepherd — whose writings served as the basis for A Christmas...

By Kate O’Hare Viewers who have been longing to turn on their TV sets and visit a place “where everybody knows your name,” as the Cheers theme song says, may find what they seek when TBS premieres Sullivan & Son on July 19 at 10pm ET....

Chicago comedy fans have the chance to meet the cast of TBS' latest sitcom, "Sullivan & Son," just a week after its July 19 premiere. Series star Steve Byrne and co-stars Owen Benjamin, Roy Wood Jr. and Ahmed Ahmed bring their "Sullivan & Son" Tour to UP...

Like the creeping tinsel at the mall, holiday shows in Chicago seem to start earlier each year. This season, it was “White Christmas” at the Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire even before the trick-or-treaters had ventured forth from their...

Toward the end of "A Christmas Story, The Musical" you hear a small catch in the throat of the fine actor Gene Weygandt, who plays Jean Shepherd, the raconteur who gave the American Christmas its Ralphie and his Red Ryder BB gun. You immediately get...

Is there anyone in Chicago having more fun this summer than Chris Chelios? The former Blackhawk was standing alongside Eddie Vedder last month when the Pearl Jam singer gave an impromptu performance at Stanley’s Kitchen & Tap in Lincoln Park and...

The Fray’s Isaac Slade said filming the music video for “You Found Me” on the streets of Chicago was “really, really surreal,” but the 30-year-old singer admitted Chicago was not the piano rock band’s first choice....

Conventional wisdom among television programmers is that nobody is watching on major holidays such as Christmas, and if they are watching, they're probably sick of the holiday hype by the time the day rolls around. What seems to slip their minds is...

A few TV highlights tonight: “A Michael Bublé Christmas” premieres at 8 o'clock on NBC. He sings, of course, many familiar songs. He also welcomes Justin Bieber, Kellie Pickler, Thalia, Oscar the Grouch, the Puppini Sisters and Naturally 7....