At left is a headshot of Dorothy Milne, a white woman wearing a purple top and glasses with blonde-gray dreadlocks. At right is Nestor Gomez, a Latinx man standing at a microphone. He is wearing a dark suit with a purple shirt. His left hand is raised slightly.

When Sharon Evans started producing solo work at Live Bait Theater in the late 1980s, storytelling hadn’t yet become a cottage industry in Chicago. “At that time it was a very unusual thing to do,” Evans says. “I remember being told that no one would pay to see a solo performer on an extended run.”  […]

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