If any one town can claim to have invented improv, it's Chicago. It's been that way since July 5, 1955, when the Compass Players opened their first show at 1152 E. 55th St. and allowed the likes of Mike Nichols, Elaine May, Valerie Harper and Alan Alda t

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Aiming to outdo HBO’s recent recruiting of Alan Alda with their own unconventional ’70s sex symbols, Showtime has drafted both Elliott Gould and Jon Voight to join the cast of the upcoming Ray Donovan, which stars modern-day “thinking woman’s sex symbol”

One of the most exciting financial initiatives for the independent filmmaker is offered by The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. It believes that a carefully reasoned and systematic understanding of the forces of nature and society, when applied inventively an

Alan Alda, Jamie Bernstein, Boyd Gaines, Sheldon Harnick, Helen Hunt, Linda Lavin, Patti LuPone, and Faith Prince will be among the artists paying tribute to Mary Rodgers Guettel at The Juilliard School's gala, Hail Mary!, to be held in Juilliard's Peter

Imagine walking 650 miles. It takes about 8 days and 19 hours according to Google maps (beta). Now, imagine that you are a 17-year-old African-American male. By the way, the year is 1935. You begin this "650 miles" walk from Georgia to Washington, D.C. t