Inside the Mind of Lyric Opera Honcho Anthony Freud
GREAT BRIT: His bucket list, foods he can’t live without, fantasy opera team, and more
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Bill Savage, Writer and Editor
Dmitry Samarov met his future editor when the Northwestern prof bought one of the artist’s paintings in 2001. Here, more on Savage, an avid cyclist and scholar of Chicago history
A Farewell to Arms
Top 5 Things to Do This Week: Profiles Theatre goes dark (as in comedy) … Twyla Tharp stages a premiere … Matthew Sweet still needs a girlfriend … plus, loads of free stuff and the new MSI crasher’s weekend plans
5 Reasons to See Maria Bamford at Mayne Stage
The comedian whom Marc Maron describes as “the best comic in the country,” a veteran of Patton Oswalt’s “Comedians of Comedy Tour,” does a two-night stand this weekend.
Chicago Ideas Week
Worth your time (and money): Jeanne Gang and Sandra Day O’Connor think big … Follies gets wistful … Susan Orlean waxes rhapsodic on Rin Tin Tin … plus, weekend plans from Joan of Arc’s Tim Kinsella
Nick Digilio, Radio Man
Dmitry Samarov on his unlikely friendship with the WGN radio host
Best Things to Do in October in Chicago
POCKET GUIDE: A cultural shortlist for October, in order of buzz
Top 5 Things to Do This Week
The week is short. Play hard: The Goodman sees Red … the Backyard Film & Music Fest returns, with booze … the future of jazz comes to town … an expat artist spills her weekend plans … plus, three don’t-miss freebies from week 1 of Chicago Artists Month
Noah Vaughn, Photographer
Dmitry Samarov introduces us to photographer Noah Vaughn, whom the writer met 20 years ago at the School of the Art Institute. Vaughn, writes Samarov, “documents the crumbling, abandoned parts of the city without making a fetish of them. And that is no small feat.”
Mark Rothko at the Goodman Theatre and the Art Institute
“RED,” a play about Mark Rothko by former Chicagoan Josh Logan, opens tonight at the Goodman. Here’s where you can see Rothko’s paintings in person in Chicago and throughout the Midwest.