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There are no balls or rackets onstage, but chameleon-like actor Chilina Kennedy learned some of her moves from tennis legend ...
In the final few minutes of “Billie Jean,” the new play with Broadway aspirations at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, we follow ...
Legendary actor and comedian Lily Tomlin was in Chicago support “Billie Jean,” a play about another living legend — Billie ...
The play at Chicago Shakespeare Theater dramatizes the dramatic and impactful life of a legend with a muscular performance by ...
Comedy legend Lily Tomlin is also one of the producers of the world premiere play about the personal and professional life of ...
The life story of sports hero and feminist icon Billie Jean King is the subject of a new play at the Chicago Shakespeare ...
To Billie Jean King, it doesn’t really feel like it’s been 50 years since she spearheaded the charge for equal prize money for women’s tennis players and, in turn, changed the landscape of ...
Billie Jean’s identity struggle — she is married to a man yet romantically drawn to women — is sensitively handled. The marriage to Larry King (John Kroft) is treated with mutual dignity and ...
Billie Jean King was an athlete first. Quickly, she became a champion, many times over. She had a remarkable tennis career. But that was not enough, not nearly enough, for BJK, as she came to be ...
Jamie Lee Curtis says she is ‘self-retiring’ after seeing how Hollywood treated her superstar parents CVS recall update: ...