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 has urged players that are struggling with the demands of being a tennis professional to seek support from psychologists.. Two years ago, four-time grand slam champion Naomi Osaka ...

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 ...

The story of tennis great Billie Jean King, a pioneer of women’s sports, is directed by Marc Bruni in a world premiere play ...

There are no balls or rackets onstage, but chameleon-like actor Chilina Kennedy learned some of her moves from tennis legend ...

The play at Chicago Shakespeare Theater dramatizes the dramatic, and impactful, life of a legend with a muscular performance ...

Billie Jean” is the name of the new play by Lauren Gunderson now in its world premiere at Chicago Shakespeare Theater. This ...

Tennis legend Billie Jean King has some unfinished business. King's athletic achievements are groundbreaking: she's won 39 Grand Slams, ranked No. 1 nationally a total of six times from 1966 to ...

Here’s a soulful and sometimes silly six-pack of the artistic and the fantastic — our shortlist of Chicago shows to ...

Billie Jean King is an icon in the world of sports, but her fridge is probably a lot more relatable to the average person ...

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 ...