Heather Headley

Sure, the fanfare and the feathers are still there: the high-stepping Vegas-look-alike hoofers, the brassy Broadway revues and the bauble-bedecked million-dollar productions. But entertainment at sea is broadening to include classical music performances,...

Tony-winner Brian Stokes Mitchell, who serves as the president of the Actors' Fund, will mark the group's 125th anniversary with his first solo concert at Carnegie Hall on Monday night. How will this compare with your other recent concerts? It's...

POP MUSIC Greg Kot Chicago Rocks: This annual event has become the premier showcase for local independent hip-hop. Past performers have included Lupe Fiasco, Rhymefest and Juice, among others, and this year's lineup includes veterans Crucial Conflict and...

Sure, Tony Soprano could get whacked when "The Sopranos" airs its last episode this Sunday night at 9, but he could also take out the Tony Awards. Unfortunately, Broadway's awardcast is squaring off against the grand finale of one of TV's greatest...

FORBIDDEN BROADWAY 2001: A SPOOF ODYSSEY. Created and written by Gerard Alessandrini, directed by Phillip George and Alessandrini. With Felicia Finley, Danny Gurwin, Tony Nation, Christine Pedi and pianist Catherine Stornetta. Musical direction by...

Coming this fall: The Drama of the Troubled Diva. For the next four months, many of pop's juiciest plot lines will feature female singers struggling back from the brink. They include Whitney Houston, Christina Aguilera and TLC, all of whom have spent far...

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. -- Rap and R&B dominated the charts this year, and Grammy voters took note, nominating Beyonce, Jay-Z, OutKast and Pharrell Williams for a leading six Grammy nominations each on Thursday. Missy Elliott, Eminem, Evanescence, 50 Cent,...

Complete list of winners and nominees in 105 categories for the 46th annual Grammy Awards: Winners are indicated in green. 1. Record of the year: "Crazy in Love," Beyonce featuring Jay-Z; "Where Is the Love?" Black Eyed Peas and Justin Timberlake;...

Famous Door Theatre's "Ghetto" and Drury Lane Oakbrook Terrace's "1776" took home the top prizes as best production of a play and musical, respectively, at the 32nd annual Jeff Awards ceremony honoring excellence in Chicago area theater. A total of 27...

Always an uneasy mix of camp theatrics, ersatz post-modernism and a portentous narrative of doomed lovers and nations at war, Disney Theatrical Productions' version of "Aida" is the kind of pop pastiche that sends musical-theater purists scurrying for the...

WHEN DISNEY made its first assault on Broadway with "Beauty and the Beast," we were dispirited by the laziness of sprawling corporate-culture ambition. Instead of some state-of-the-art Hollywood wizardry or even ordinary modern Broadway know-how, the best...

IF YOU SQUINT at the program, you can make out the tiny type that says "Aida," which opened at the Palace Theatre last night, has been-shhh-"suggested by the opera." And if you turn way back to the final page of the credits, you can learn that "Hyperion...