Natalie Moore writes about soap operas, their Chicago origins and relevance through the years. Her upcoming WBEZ podcast ...

A Chicago woman created soap operas. And a Chicago woman is keeping them alive. First, let me introduce you to Irna Phillips. She revolutionized television and hardly gets enough credit.

This term for some of our most melodramatic television shows has a surprisingly literal origin. Constant advertisements for soap, detergent, and other everyday products during these daytime dramas ...

Fans of the soap operas One Life to Live and Guiding Light will likely be sad to hear the news that actor Mark Dobies has passed away. His cause of death has not been revealed yet. Dobies passed ...

On top of that, soap operas were some of the first programs to adopt LGBTQ+ storylines, like Ryan Phillippe’s openly gay teen character on One Life to Live, and All My Children, which featured ...

But television soap operas, largely created by women for women, were soon attracting tens of millions of viewers and driving network revenue. Midcentury housewives had more free time to tune in ...

Heather Tom, who plays Katie Logan Spencer, wrote and directed the Women’s History Month themed-episode. Starring alongside Tom will be Rebecca Budig (Dr. Taylor Hayes), Jennifer Gareis (Donna ...

Now, obviously, to see a Black woman standing up there singing that. … It used to be funny. It’s not funny anymore. Q: Claire taps into her inner “wildness” in the opera. That, plus the ...

“There’s a lot of rumors going around about Dawn dish soap causing health problems, and honestly, the rumors are true,” the woman began in the clip. Tamara also accused the soap of being ...

The soap opera world was especially rocked by the deaths of beloved stars, including Days of Our Lives veteran Bill Hayes and General Hospital icon Leslie Charleson. As families, fans and ...

Love triangles, amnesia, cliffhangers, blackmail – there’s no trope or plot device that soap operas haven’t seen – or invented. But who invented the soaps themselves? Turns out ...