You're the richest woman on the planet, ending a talk show run of 25 years to start your own network (which in itself is a daunting task) and you just told ABC's real life Skeletor, Barbara Walters that you're "not even kind of a lesbian" to refute rumors that you and your best friend are just that. What would you do next? more ›

Right around this time last year, we had just learned about World Theatre Day. The almost-50-year-old event will be celebrated once again this Saturday, and for the second year in a row, Chicago is joining the party - and throwing one. more ›

Steppenwolf and Tracy Letts received their millionth award together - not really but it feels that way - for Superior Donuts, which takes August: Osage County’s place on Broadway at the Music Box Theatre in October. Superior Donuts won a citation, i.e. “runner up,” for the Harold and Mimi Steinberg New Play Award, administered by the American Theatre Critics Association. The award comes with $7,500, which isn’t a hefty sum considering Broadway tickets cost about half that. Lynn Nottage’s Ruined, which premiered at the Goodman last fall and won this year’s Pulitzer, was also named one of the 2008-2009 Best Plays by The Best Plays Theater Yearbook, an annual publication celebrating American theater. more ›

Chicago theater has done it again. After the international success of Tracy Lett’s Pulitzer Prize-winning August: Osage County, Lynn Nottage won the 2009 Pulitzer for her play Ruined, which premiered at the Goodman Theatre last fall. We don’t like to brag, but two Pulitzers in two years is a pretty good record. more ›