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
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.”
“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.
A brief introduction to the work of Dmitry Samarov: artist, writer, cab driver, and the next contributor to “Off the Grid,” dispatches from our writers-in-residence.
What to do this week: Mavis Staples and Andrew Bird blow out the Hideout’s candles … The Sea and Cake’s Sam Prekop spills his weekend plans … the Decemberists’ Colin Meloy gets even wordier … plus, free jazz, free Muti, free museums
RogerEbert.com founding editor Jim Emerson does a long analysis of the Batman film’s exciting, but arguably incomprehensible, Lower Wacker pursuit sequence.
ROLE REVERSAL: After high-profile roles in several plays and musicals, this season, the 26-year-old is on the cast of Goodman’s “Red.”
THE ANTICIPATION INDEX: Ten shows to buy tickets to now, starting with the most eagerly awaited
PROMISING PLAYERS: Getting to know Nicolas Gamboa, Rae Gray, Adrian Aguilar, Kevin Douglas, and Lindsay Leopold
FLYING SOLO: Two actors dish on the thrills and chills of the singular spotlight
