I only lived in Chicago for about a year, and I still wound up learning a fair bit about the Blizzard of 1967, mostly from the old guys at the bar I hung out at, but where else are you going to hear weather stories? Anyway, Jon Steinhagen, Chicago Dramatists’ resident playwright, probably grew up hearing similar stories, and now he’s turned the storm into a swirling, hallucinatory play, Blizzard ’67, that the Dramatists are staging at their place at 1105 W. Chicago Ave. through February 12. Go shiver with them. (FULL ARTICLE: Hedy Weiss, Chicago Sun-Times)
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Chicago Dramatists’ “Blizzard of ’67” Brings Some Chill to a Balmy Winter
January 17, 2012