*A courtside moment meant for family quickly turned into an online controversy. Patti LaBelle attended a Philadelphia Sixers game with her three grandchildren, expecting a simple, joyful outing. But ...

The Broadway singer and actress Patti LuPone appears in concert at the Auditorium Theatre on Saturday. She spoke with the Tribune about her show, “Matters of the Heart,” in a telephone interview. Our ...

Patti Smith, 79, says aging has made her more determined to keep working for as long as she can. "And I have so much to do and so many things I want to do, so many things I want to write," she said.

“Palm Royale” Season 2 puts Patti LuPone front and center during her guest appearance as she takes the stage for an elaborate musical number—something she didn’t know about when she first agreed to ...

Born coughing, Patti Smith was a sickly kid. As she writes in her new memoir, “Bread of Angels,” “Mine was a Proustian childhood, one of intermittent quarantine and convalescence.” Her family moved ...

Patti was born on April 29, 1951 to George W. and Hildegard C. Eastman (Friedrich) in Omaha, Nebraska, their fourth child. When Patti was about 3 years old, the family relocated to Prairie du Chien, ...

It’s a rare gray Saturday in Los Angeles; raindrops collect along a window overlooking a row of trees at Le Parc at Melrose. Light trickles its way into the hotel room, illuminating a brown coffee ...

Has there ever been a gutsier opening salvo in rock n’ roll? That’s how Patti Smith began her show Monday night at the Chicago Theatre, the line coming out slow and sinewy, and it’s how she started ...

As Patti Smith walked back onto the stage for her encore on Saturday, Nov. 15, she smiled and waved to the cheering crowds on all four sides of the Walt Disney Concert Hall. “I don’t usually have the ...

Yes, Smith is an amazing poet, performer, and memoirist, but she’s also an incredible vocalist with unbelievable control. Credit: Eric Tra “If you were wondering what the poem meant, I have no idea,” ...

With “Bread of Angels,” Patti Smith has finally given readers the long-awaited follow-up to 2010’s “Just Kids.” Unlike “M Train” (2015) and “Year of the Monkey” (2019), both of which mixed memoir with ...

At age 78, Patti Smith has much to celebrate, and not only because of her prolific career, but also because novelties are still present in her life. In honor of her new memoir, Bread of Angels and the ...