Back in 1997, I watched a guy named Rick Stone appear in a Black Ensemble Theater tribute to Otis Redding. A few weeks later, I went back to see another show there. Stone was taking my ticket. I went back again; Stone was ushering. For a time, he was the theater's janitor. But in 2003, he got his...
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune at 02:45PM on July 29, 2018