CHICAGO – The late playwright August Wilson left a gift to the world in the form of his “American Century Cycle,” a series of plays each individually set in a decade of the 20th Century, focusing on the black experience. Chicago’s Goodman Theatre presents Wilson’s “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone,” now through May 19th, 2024 (click here).
Exclusive Portrait: 1980s Rocker Rick Springfield at Book Signing
CHICAGO – Rick Springfield, the essential 1980s personality rocker, is serving up his life in a new memoir, “Late Late at Night.” He was in the Chicago area recently greeting admirers and signing his new book at Anderson’s Bookshop in Naperville, Ill.
Springfield, the Grammy Award-winning musician, songwriter, actor and now author, is best remembered for his string of hits in the 1980s MTV era, including “Jessie’s Girl.” Joe Arce of HollywoodChicago.com captured this Exclusive Portrait while a film crew was shooting a documentary about Springfield called “An Affair of the Heart,” slated for released in 2011.
in Naperville, October 20th, 2010 Photo credit: Joe Arce of Starstruck Foto for HollywoodChicago.com. |
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By PATRICK McDONALD |