Goldstar is offering free tickets to Superior Donuts for a couple of performance next week. I wanted to see this production in Chicago, then when it was on Broadway – the fact that it’s back in Chicago with free tickets must be a sign from the Gods (couldn’t they just give me winning lottery numbers?).

Mary-Arrchie Theatre Company (in the Royal George Theatre across from Steppenwolf Theatre) reprises its acclaimed production of the Chicago-set Superior Donuts, the delicious comedy-drama from Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tracy Letts (August: Osage County). It’s the story of the off-beat friendship that grows between the cantankerous white owner of a struggling uptown donut shop — a former radical who holds on tight to the past — and his only employee, an ambitious African-American teenager who has big dreams for the place. The company’s first run of this production was nominated for four prestigious Jeff Awards and recommended by the Chicago Reader.