ENTERTAINMENT

What do working-class Irishmen in the final throes of middle age talk about in the pub? You know, with a good pal. The kind with whom you can let down your guard.

If your answer to that question is, “Who cares?” then the Abbey Theatre’s production of Roddy Doyle’s “Two Pints” is not your show.

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Nick Waterhouse knows his retro sounds well enough that he doesn’t have to merely imitate them. Over four albums, he writes, performs and arranges with an intention both designed to nod at the ’50s and ’60s stylists he reveres while also subverting them. His best songs don’t arrive with a thick…

In a new TV interview, the parents of one of R. Kelly’s girlfriends denied their daughter’s claims that they are trying to extort money from the R&B superstar.

“Let me make sure I’m clear. I’ve never received any funds from R. Kelly. I’ve never asked for any monies from R. Kelly. Only thing I’ve…

Any soloist’s Chicago Symphony Orchestra debut raises hopes and expectations, the performer testing himself or herself against one of the world’s most revered ensembles.

That responsibility and opportunity came to Nicholas Angelich on Thursday evening in Orchestra Hall, where the pianist took on…

Joe Donlon, who co-anchors four evening newscasts on WGN-Ch. 9, and those who know him chatted with the Tribune about Donlon’s first year at the station.

How he learned Chicago suburbs

WGN meteorologist “Tom Skilling was actually a huge help for me because one thing I knew coming in was that I…

Before he took his seat at the WGN-Ch. 9 anchor desk and before he showed off his breakdancing moves on the morning news, Joe Donlon was a familiar face in Chicago.

“People stopped me at Wrigley before I even started, just based on the promotions that WGN was running. My daughter and I went to…

A Chicago-area woman discusses what it’s like having a Chicago Outfit hit man for a stepfather on a new episode of the Reelz channel series “I Lived with a Killer.”

Harry “The Hook” Aleman, described as “one of the most feared enforcers in organized crime,” is alleged to have committed or participated…

The cornerstone of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s 60th anniversary season is “Lazarus,” the company’s first two-act work in its history, created by choreographer-in-residence Rennie Harris. The Auditorium Theatre, which for 50 years has hosted Ailey’s annual tour to Chicago, was a commissioning…

Inside a nondescript building not far from the Atlanta airport, David Korins, the set designer of “Hamilton,” the creative director of “Hamilton: The Exhibition” and a man just finished with designing the look of the Academy Awards, has a mantra for everything that he is doing for Chicago.

“History…

On Vince Staples’ 2018 album, “FM!,” there’s a party going on. From a distance, it sounds like a celebration of the rapper’s childhood in Long Beach, Calif. But as with all things Staples creates, it’s more complicated than that.

With the voice of legendary Los Angeles morning-show host Big Boy…

Music superstar R. Kelly again got emotional in a new TV interview as he claimed his ex-wife, Andrea Kelly, has made it difficult for him to pay child support. Kelly was jailed Wednesday after failing to pay his ex-wife more than $161,000 in back child support.

“How can I pay child support? How?…

We’re lucky here. We are. Chicago moviegoers needn’t wholly rely on the Gene Siskel Film Center’s annual Chicago European Union Film Festival to see what’s out there in the world (28 nations, anyway) and in current EU cinema, because Chicago is graced with venues and programmers who believe in…

Robyn’s brand of dance pop hinges on a balancing act between ecstasy and introspection. On Wednesday at the sold-out Aragon Ballroom, the scales tipped toward the lighter side of the spectrum, with the singer skipping, twirling, tumbling and even back-flipping as the beats rolled through a bobbing,…

Here’s a unique and uniquely exasperating addition to the heist genre.

“Ruben Brandt, Collector” globe-trots from international art museum to international art museum, scattering insanely high-speed chases throughout a busy mystery involving a shadowy art therapist, haunted by childhood memories…

It’s been some time now since Kip Moore had a smash single on country radio. But then again, commercial success never really mattered all that much to him. “I’m never chasing anything,” said the Georgia-raised singer, whose sound was always a bit more Southern rock than traditional country and…