I brought my 9-year-old son to see "A Christmas Carol" at the Goodman Theatre last Sunday, and I spent a good chunk of the performance thinking of all the people who would do well to absorb …
At first, Nora Leonard, 16, called her cancer "Jim." "When we found out it was cancer, it hadn't really hit me yet," she said. "But I knew I didn't like that word. So I said, 'Can we call it…
It was December when Ben Dicke, theater department chair at The Chicago Academy for the Arts, approached Jason Patera, the head of school, to share his vision for the spring play. "Ben said,…
Erica Heilmann missed the email telling her she was being honored at the Tony Awards. Heilmann teaches theater at Thornton Fractional South High School in Lansing, and June 1 was the last da…
At 21, Anita Hollander was diagnosed with neurofibrosarcoma, a form of cancer of her nerves. Doctors removed a motor nerve from her left leg, and she wore a brace from the knee down to keep …
At 21, Anita Hollander was diagnosed with neurofibrosarcoma, a form of cancer of her nerves. Doctors removed a motor nerve from her left leg, and she wore a brace from the knee down to keep …
Margaret Cho called Robin Williams her "father in comedy" and Joan Rivers her "mother in comedy," which means she lost both comedic parents in the span of a month. (Williams died Aug. 11, 2…
Margaret Cho called Robin Williams her "father in comedy" and Joan Rivers her "mother in comedy," which means she lost both comedic parents in the span of a month. (Williams died Aug. 11, 20…