West Africa’s Les Percussions de Guinee, recognized as one of the most extraordinary drumming ensembles in the world, has always been, by custom, male. In fact, women throughout West Africa were ...

Actor Tom McCarthy’s writing-directing debut The Station Agent won him critical raves, and he’s back this weekend with The Visitor, an intimate, heartfelt (and already nearly as acclaimed) drama ...

The Broadway Playhouse has a new show celebrating female friendship in the 1950s and 1960s. And after a long spell outside of the spotlight, the Apollo Theater in Lincoln Park is coming back to life.

Rhythms of African drums resonated through the halls of Pine Street Elementary School Wednesday. Inside the school’s multi-purpose room, even students who weren’t on stage performing clapped hands to ...