Weeknight Find: Great Debate
The Strangerer, a fascinating Theater Oobleck play that earned rave reviews last year, returns for a six-week run at the Chopin Theatre.
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Solo Show
If you see only one play this month, make it this one
Three Questions
U.S. poet laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Charles Simic
Who’s Who
An artist bio in brief: Derek Trucks
Found Art
Uncovering Chicago’s best-kept secrets: Carrie Hanson, artistic director of local dance company The Seldoms, devotes her latest full-length dance to … trash.
Irvin, Inspired
The head of state of New Orleans jazz, post-Katrina
15 Minutes With … Plain White T’s frontman Tom Higgenson
At this point, the story behind the Chicago band Plain White T’s 2007 breakout song “Hey There Delilah” is the stuff of local legend. I sat down with frontman Tom Higgenson—who was playing a mini acoustic set Friday night at a launch party for 24/7 Chicago, NBC-5’s new local entertainment show hosted by Catie Keogh, Jamie Blyth (of The Bachelorette, circa Jen Schefft), and Billy Dec—to get the real dirt on…
American Gigolo
Fifty years ago this April, a young man from Woodstock, Illinois, named Johnny Stompanato was stabbed to death in the bedroom of his lover, the movie goddess Lana Turner. Stompanato was a minor hoodlum and notorious Lothario, and news accounts eviscerated his character in the media frenzy after his death. Now a writer, also from Woodstock, follows a fading trail to find how a small-town Midwesterner landed at the heart of one of Hollywood’s most enduring scandals.
The Haunted
Playwright Ifa Bayeza didn’t set out to write about Emmett Till. Then Emmett reached out to her, she says, and refused to let go.
Imaginary Friends
We’re not sure what to do now that the sketch comedy group Schadenfreude has returned. Laugh? Hide our children?