Fresh off a major renovation, the historic Splendido, a dolce vita icon on the Italian Riviera, is ready to welcome the most ...

She’s been described as a “fast-talking, fast-driving, champagne-swilling Nazi-hunter-investigator”. To picture her, you might want to imagine an Aussie Ava Gardner, stalking around 1940s Sydney ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Like Ava Gardner, the subject of the play she’s written and stars in, Elizabeth McGovern came to Hollywood at a young age, winning her breakout role in Robert Redford’s 1980 film version of Ordinary ...

Actress and Evanston native Elizabeth McGovern (“Downton Abbey,” “Once Upon a Time in America,” “Ordinary People”) channels screen legend Ava Gardner in “Ava: The Secret Conversations,” written by ...

In 1988, the Hollywood star Ava Gardner asked a writer named Peter Evans to ghostwrite her memoirs. The two had never met, but before long, Gardner was calling Evans in the middle of the night, ...

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If there’s one major theme of Chicago’s fall theater season, it’s brand-new productions. Across stages large and small, artists eager to welcome back audiences are gambling on premieres, including new ...