Chicago favorite Mattie Hawkinson is the troubled young woman who confronts a man from her past, played by “CSI” star and Windy City theatre veteran William Petersen, in Victory Gardens Theater’s Chicago premiere of David Harrower’s Blackbird, beginning July 3.

Puppet master pulls some strings for inner-peace In a world where people are constantly called to think, analyze and examine, Blair Thomas offers an unconventional way for their minds to pause: puppet theater.

Chris Jones: In the new movie “Public Enemies,” John Dillinger’s girlfriend Billie Frechette hangs out in an apartment just a few feet from the “L” tracks. Of course she does.

In the new Michael Mann-directed film Public Enemies , Hollywood heavyweights Johnny Depp and Christian Bale have teamed up to recreate the story of famous 1930s bank robber John Dillinger. TV Guide Network caught up with Depp and Bale in Chicago’s Biograph Theater, where Dillinger was gunned down almost exactly 75 years ago.

SACO and#8212; The Legacy Theater Company brings the award winning, razzle-dazzle musical “Chicago” to the Harry P. Garland II Auditorium on the campus of Thornton Academy, Route 1, Saco, for two big weekends, July 10 through 19, with Friday and Saturday…