This world premiere play in Skokie recounts the important story of the courageous, Emmy-winning Gertrude Berg, but it only ...

The First Lady of Television” — 3 stars “On your toes, darlings.” Broadcast pioneer and writer/actor Gertrude Berg — as imagined by playwright James Sherman and portrayed by the ...

The play puts Gertrude Berg front and center in a period piece embedded with a razor’s edge of contemporary urgency and ...

Cindy Gold plays Gertrude Berg, the creator and star of early sitcom The Goldbergs, in Northlight's The First Lady of ...

James Sherman's The First Lady of Television at Northlight tells a story from 1950 that's uncomfortably relevant for our times.

The world premiere play will be many audiences’ introduction to Gertrude Berg, a television pioneer who refused to back down.

Northlight Theatre has extended its 50th Anniversary season opener, James Sherman’s The First Lady of Television, directed by ...

Experience the captivating play 'The First Lady of Television' by James Sherman, celebrating the life and legacy of TV ...

When thinking about who is the first lady of television, someone like Lucille Ball or Betty White may come to mind. A new play at Northlight Theatre in Skokie shows why Gertrude Berg earns the No. 1 ...

Ben Feldman, Max Greenfield and Abbi Jacobson voice siblings coping with a lifetime of tsuris in this Netflix animated dramedy.

For theater fans hungering for new works on suburban and Chicago stages, this fall promises a banquet. Among the dozen or more premieres scheduled this fall is the new punk/hip-hop musical by Rage ...

A historic gentleman’s farm in Bedford Hills, NY, with roots stretching back to the 18th century — and a history that includes politicians, physicians and television pioneers — has come to market for ...