Stories by Daniel Hautzinger

The Judy Istock Butterfly Haven houses roughly 1,000 butterflies of over forty different species from around the globe at any one time. Doug Taron manages them all.

How much do the actors on Victoria look like the historical figures they portray? Learn about the real people depicted on the show as you compare the character with the actor. 

Cultural depictions of powerful historical women currently reign large, just as the United States came very close to electing its first female president. Queen Victoria, Queen Elizabeth, and Jackie Kennedy can all be seen on screen now.

On January 13, Great Performances broadcasts 'Bel Canto' the opera from Lyric Opera of Chicago, which gave the world premiere in December 2015.

The first episode of Season 4 of Sherlock features a significant birth and a shocking death, as well as some secret agent-style thrills. Oh, and we still don't know what's up with Moriarty.

The Chicago Public Library was founded in the wake of the Great Chicago Fire with an inventory of books donated from England and other countries. 

Fans have concocted brilliant (or nutty) theories about season 4 of Sherlock worthy of the detective's own deductions. 

Season 4 of Sherlock is the darkest yet. Will Moriarty return? Will Mary confront her past? Will Sherlock succumb once again to drugs? Most importantly, will this be the final season?

Richard III contains some of Shakespeare's most vicious invective. You can watch the curses fly in the Great Performances broadcast of The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses.

Benedict Cumberbatch and Andrew Scott are in both Sherlock and The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses. Do their characters have anything in common?

The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses depicts the civil war that wracked England in the late fifteenth century, as told by Shakespeare in his plays Henry VI and Richard III. The real-life people that the characters are based upon led outlandish, legendary lives.