Steve Dale's Other World

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson talked with Steve Dale for a wide-ranging conversation covering the city budget, public safety, economic development, and support for small businesses. Johnson highlighted a proposed $1.3 million increase for Chicago Animal Care and Control, calling it part of a larger effort to strengthen city services and respond to growing community needs […]

Chicago jazz and cabaret favorites Mark and Ann Burnell joined Steve Dale in the WGN Skyline Studios to discuss their upbeat new holiday single, Let It Snow, a fresh jazz-inspired take on the classic song featuring Grammy-winning violinist Zach Brock of Snarky Puppy. The duo shared how they recorded the track at Chicago’s Sound Mind […]

Legendary entertainer Lucy Arnaz joined Steve Dale to talk about her upcoming New Year’s Eve family celebration at the Plaza Theatre in Palm Springs, where she’ll be joined by her husband, actor and author Laurence Luckinbill, along with their children, musician Joe Luckinbill and actress-singer Kate Luckinbill. Arnaz said the evening will feature music, storytelling, […]

Chicago native and Rockford-raised performer Peyton Schoenhofer, who stars as Bob Gaudio in the 20th Anniversary North American tour of Jersey Boys, talks with Steve Dale to discuss bringing the hit musical back to Broadway in Chicago, running November 10-22 at the CIBC Theatre. Schoenhofer, who is appearing in Jersey Boys for the fourth time, […]

David Byrne co-created Theatre of the Mind, a Goodman Theatre production at 333 N. LaSalle St, and Steve Dale talks with actor James Earl Jones II, one of the rotating performers who will guide audiences through the experience, who goes in-depth about this immersive production and his role as David in it. He also recalls what […]

Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s musical The Book of Mormon is back in Chicago for a limited run at the Cadillac Palace Theatre, October 23 through November 1. Steve Dale caught up with cast member Shafiq Lamar Hicks, who plays the General, to talk about the award-winning comedy, his impressive career, and the future of […]

After 85 years, Gene & Georgetti’s continues to be a family owned business thriving in River North (500 N. Franklin St). Steve talks with third generation owner Michelle Durpetti.  Nothing has changed at Gene & Georgetti’s, yet everything has changed. Michelle explains what that means. What’s their secret to thrive as a privately owned restaurant among all the corporate […]

Actress Jacqueline Guillen, who is in Dead Girl’s Quinceañera at the Goodman’s Harris Theatre, talks to Steve Dale about the unique and premiere show, a sort of coming of age detective story. You’ve perhaps seen her on TV, but she says why she prefers the stage and she says Steve Dale’s Spanish isn’t awful. 

It’s 1943, and the Allied Forces are on the ropes. Luckily, they’ve got a trick up their sleeve. Well, not up their sleeve, per se, but rather inside the pocket of a stolen dead body – that’s Operation Mincemeat at the CIBC Theatre, 18 W. Monroe St., through Oct 11, a Broadway in Chicago show.  […]

Alex Goodrich is a veteran Chicago actor who plays the Mayor of Gander, Newfoundland – who had to deal with 38 International flights diverted there on September 11 following the terrorists attacks at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The show is Come from Away, at the Marriott Lincolnshire Theatre. This story is particularly touching today […]