Every Thursday, WTTW News highlights the week’s must-see cultural events. This week, it’s newsletter producer Josh Terry filling in for arts correspondent Marc Vitali. Josh Terry: With our intrepid arts reporter Marc Vitali on vacation, I have big shoes to fill for WTTW News’ weekly roundup of cultural events. Though my reporting background has had me covering local music since 2012, here are some openings, screenings, and performances that will have you in the movie theater, the symphony, the art gallery and, naturally, the dive bar concert venue. “Black Bone” — Definition Theatre From the award-winning playwright Tina Fakhrid-Deen and director Chuck Smith comes a biting and surreal satire that tackles race, academia and self-presentation. Per the synopsis: “The play follows a group of Black academics at a predominantly white institution (PWI) who discover that one among them is "passing" as Black.” Opens Friday, May 30 and runs through June 29. Tickets and showtimes here. "The Interview Show with Mark Bazer" — Hideout Where else but Chicago could you get a bill that includes the President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Austan Goolsbee, the iconic sports journalist Sarah Spain and a rising indie rock band in Moontype? Friday, May 30 at 6:30pm. Tickets here. "Summer Camp“ Movie Series — Gene Siskel Film Center Throughout June, the Gene Siskel Film Center will screen a series of movies involving “camp.” In 1964, Susan Sontag wrote that the essence of camp is “its love of the unnatural: of artifice and exaggeration.” From Douglas Sirk’s “Written on the Wind,” Albert and David Maysles’ “Grey Gardens,” to, of course, John Waters, expect a finely curated selection of camp. Movie times and tickets here. “An Evening with Heather Hedley” — Symphony Center The acclaimed Tony and Grammy-winning Broadway veteran looks back on a 25-year career through a 90-minute musical performance. One night only on Tuesday, June 3. Tickets here. “Deborah Butterfield: New Sculptures” — Zolla/Lieberman Gallery This solo exhibition features the latest work by the acclaimed American sculptor, who for 40-plus years has been focusing her bronze-heavy work on a singular equine subject: the horse. It opens with a reception on Friday, May 30, and will run through Tuesday, Aug. 12.
