For the third time in as many seasons it was Oak Glen and Philip Barbour battling it out for statewide bragging rights in Class AA. However, James Monroe senior Ava Pitzer, whose Mavericks fell in the ...

A look at The State’s all-area girls volleyball team players of the year from Midlands high schools for the 2025 season.

Take a scroll through the Gen Z side of #BookTok, and you’ll be inundated with suggestions to read Taylor Jenkins Reid’s bestselling novel The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, in which an aging movie ...

When a star actor plays another star on stage, you never quite know what to expect. Whether it's theatre, opera or film, Joshua's perspective brings Toronto's arts scene to life. Sign up for updates ...

First things first: Elizabeth McGovern has loved playing Cora Crawley, the Countess of Grantham, in the beloved “Downton Abbey” movies and TV series that made her famous worldwide. But after a ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- "Ava: The Secret Conversations" is a hit at the Studebaker Theater. It's about a screen legend whose real life was as thrilling as the movies she starred in. Elizabeth McGovern plays ...

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Elizabeth McGovern in Ava: The Secret Conversations Credit: Jeff Lorch Unlike solo biographical shows, where the audience is the implied interlocutor/confessor for the life events as they unfold as ...

Fans of Elizabeth McGovern who find their way to the Studebaker Theater merely out of a desire to see a star of the TV and movie franchise “Downton Abbey,” live and in person in Chicago, likely will ...

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CHICAGO (WLS) -- "Ava: The Secret Conversations" just opened to rave reviews, starring Elizabeth McGovern at the Studebaker Theater. The Evanston native plays one of the most compelling women to ever ...

The “Downton Abbey” actress is picking up the pen and writing the roles she wants to play. First up: the sultry star from Hollywood’s Golden era. In the late 1980s, a larger-than-life movie star from ...