Rhinoceros Festival a massive celebration of stage works
First question: Why does Chicago's longest running multi-arts fringe festival bear the name of a huge, thick-skinned, increasingly rare horned beast known for wallowing in the mud? As it happens, Chicago's Rhinoceros Festival, now celebrating its 25th season, came by its name via that Surrealist master, Salvador Dali, who once referred to something enormous in size as "rhinoceric." And with more than 30 different per…