Jerome Robbins

Help introduce or re-introduce children to the wonderful cultural arts and entertainment Chicago has to offer. But parental units, you'll have to do your part: turn off the iPod, Disney Channel and Guitar Hero. Here's a start: The Sunday Salon series at...

++++++++++++++++++++ || || || || || Back from an injury in 2008, Jamy Meek brings speed, poetry and authority to his performances for Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. He next appears in the company's Spring Series in April at the Harris Theater. || || ||...

Seeing big-screen movies on small-screen TVs has always been a dubious proposition - make the image so small, and why even bother? Recent history had that problem of scale becoming less and less of a concern, thanks to the popularity of big-screen...

If you don't have any New Year's Eve parties to attend, or you need a good excuse to decline an invitation - "Oh, I'd love to, but we have tickets for..." - here are some ways to spend the last hours of 2008 while staying close to home. For families...

A whole new generation of innovative filmmakers, such as D.W. Griffith, Émile Cohl and Max Linder, began pushing the envelope of the still-fledgling medium of motion pictures a century ago. On Monday, several of those films from the silent era that...

"Madagascar" (2005) made half a bil, and my preteen son certainly enjoyed it, especially for the penguins. The sequel, "Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa," is a better film, though—less manic, more easygoing. The first film referenced so many other movies...

San Francisco Ballet, this nation's oldest classical dance company, is 75 years young -- to underscore the compliment. When you've lasted that long and are kicking up your heels as well as these dancers do, it's worth a celebration. Artistic director...

When it comes to dancing with or without the stars, Broadway has been losing the beat to TV. But, finally, here comes "Billy Elliot," the first dance-driven musical to promise kinetic liftoff since Twyla Tharp's "Movin' Out" moved out in 2005 after three...

Our faithful Chestertown correspondent and longtime friend, Douglas R. Price, who in his younger days was a member of Dwight D. Eisenhower's White House staff, sent me a letter the other day explaining the history of "I Like Ike," which became his...

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa is more an encore than a sequel. Did you or your kids like the commando penguins, Alex the "jazz hands" lion, Sacha Baron Cohen's impersonation of Peter Sellers, the big-eyed mouse lemur, the cranky little old lady who yells...

"Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa" is more an encore than a sequel. Did you or your kids like the commando penguins, Alex the "jazz hands" lion, Sacha Baron Cohen's impersonation of Peter Sellers, the big-eyed mouse lemur, the cranky little old lady who...

"Madagascar," the 2005 animated film that brought us pampered zoo critters Alex the lion, Marty the zebra, Melman the paranoid hypochondriac giraffe and Gloria the hippo (and the penguins, don't forget those crafty penguins) pulled in about half a billion...