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Steppenwolf Theatre’s ‘Catch As Catch Can’ marks ensemble member Gary Cole’s return to a Chicago stage

Steppenwolf Theatre’s ‘Catch As Catch Can’ marks ensemble member Gary Cole’s return to a Chicago stage

Longtime Steppenwolf Theatre colleagues Gary Cole, who grew up in Rolling Meadows, and Amy Morton reunite for the company’s Chicago premiere of Mia Chung’s dramedy “Catch As Catch Can.”

 
Best Bets: Playful ‘Evanescent’ installation opens at the Chicago Botanic Garden

Best Bets: Playful ‘Evanescent’ installation opens at the Chicago Botanic Garden

The Chicago Botanic Garden debuts the new installation “Evanescent,” The Second City returns to Aurora, Melissa Etheridge rocks out at the Brookfield Zoo, and the Champions of Magic dazzle at Chicago’s Studebaker Theatre.

 
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Dining out: Shota meal at Portillo’s and Cinco De Drinko at Fat Rosie’s

Dining out: Shota meal at Portillo’s and Cinco De Drinko at Fat Rosie’s

Cubs pitcher Shota Imanaga shares his favorite order from Portillo’s, Fat Rosie’s is launching Cinco De Drinko on the fifth of every month, and there’s a new craft soda and sandwich shop opening in Antioch.

 
Singer Tori Kelly’s creativity flows in the wake of first-time motherhood

Singer Tori Kelly’s creativity flows in the wake of first-time motherhood

It’s certain that Grammy Award-winning singer Tori Kelly’s upcoming tour, which brings her to the Allstate Arena in Rosemont with singer Forrest Frank Thursday, June 4, will be unlike her previous efforts. She’s got a new bundle of joy to prove it — her 7-month-old son.

 
Things to do June 5-11: Cream of Wheaton, Roselle Lions Rose Festival, Chicago Blues Fest and more

Things to do June 5-11: Cream of Wheaton, Roselle Lions Rose Festival, Chicago Blues Fest and more

Mark your calendar for Cream of Wheaton, Roselle Lions Rose Festival, Chicago Blues Festival, Mundelein Craft Beer Festival, Eid Fest, Rosemont UnCorked Wine Festival, Illinois Home Show and more.

 
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Paul Rudd and Nick Jonas hit the right notes in ‘Power Ballad’

Paul Rudd and Nick Jonas hit the right notes in ‘Power Ballad’

When a wedding band singer (Paul Rudd) and a pop star (Nick Jonas) cross paths at a wedding in “Power Ballad,” for one night, all of the stratification of the music world falls away as the movie starts like a fairy tale.

 
Celebrate Pride Month with parades and festivals in June

Celebrate Pride Month with parades and festivals in June

Almost 20 Pride events featuring parades and festivals will take place across the suburbs in June, including events in Downers Grove, Elgin, Buffalo Grove, St. Charles, Woodstock, Aurora, Elmhurst, Des Plaines and other communities.

 
Concerts June 5-11: Lee Brice, Don Toliver, Jimmy Eat World, Lupe Fiasco and more

Concerts June 5-11: Lee Brice, Don Toliver, Jimmy Eat World, Lupe Fiasco and more

Upcoming concerts include Lee Brice at the Genesee Theatre, BoDeans at the Des Plaines Theatre, Don Toliver at the United Center, Jimmy Eat World at Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island and more.

 
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Spotlight: E. Faye Butler helms Drury Lane’s revival of ‘Nunsense’

Spotlight: E. Faye Butler helms Drury Lane’s revival of ‘Nunsense’

This week in Chicago-area theater, E. Faye Butler directs Drury Lane Theatre’s revival of “Nunsense,” Oil Lamp Theater revives the two-hander tuner “The Last Five Years” and Broadway in Chicago presents the national tour of “Kinky Boots.”

 

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