JUNE
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“I don’t think outsiders are going to be alienated–that there are so many in-jokes that they wouldn’t get it,” says Factory Theater managing director Chas Vrba about the 11-year-old troupe’s new show, Chicagostyle. The series of comedic vignettes ranges from a sketch skewering da mare’s Neighborhoods Alive program to a musical production about riding the el to a newcomer’s take on the Windy City, in which he marvels at the high-fat cuisine and the sports fans’ penchant for attacking umpires and coaches. It opens tonight at 11 and runs Fridays and Saturdays through June 28 at Angel Island, 731 W. Sheridan in Chicago. Tickets are $8; for reservations call 312-409-3247.
7 SATURDAY
Lookingglass Theatre Company moves into its $1-a-year Water Tower Water Works digs this month, and it’s inaugurating the space with David Schwimmer and Joy Gregory’s adaptation of Studs Terkel’s 1992 book Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession, which opened in previews June 5. Schwimmer and Terkel will talk about bringing the work to the stage tonight at 6:30; following that there’ll be a roundtable discussion on race relations with Sun-Times columnist Mary Mitchell, poet Betty Cortina, attorney and author Scott Turow, and Clarence N. Wood, chair of the city’s Commission on Human Relations, to be moderated by Chicago Historical Society president Lonnie Bunch. The event takes place at the CHS, 1601 N. Clark in Chicago. It’s free, but reservations are required (312-799-2002).
11 WEDNESDAY
