The Toughest Man in Chicago" is playing to sold out audiences at the Chopin Theatre, and got rave reviews from the critics.

Royko: The Toughest Man in Chicago” is mainly, and justifiably, about the public issues confronted and battles fought by a ...

While it loses focus when covering Royko's later, weaker years, actor-writer Mitchell Bisschop's one-man show nails the ...

Mitchell Bisschop has created a show that is a celebration of the man’s journalistic brilliance, not a dissection of his ...

The first act, set at the Chicago Daily News in 1979 and before, is the stronger of the two and focuses on the irreverent, ...

The Los Angeles writer, director and producer Mitchell Bisschop grew up in Chicago’s northwest suburbs. But he didn’t really ...

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Mitchell Bisschop plays Royko on stage at the Chopin Theater. Photo: Courtesy of Sarah Larson . Zoom out: Bisschop, who grew ...

I always admired the writing of Mike Royko, whose storytelling and journalism graced the pages of the Chicago Daily News, Chicago Sun-Times and Chicago Tribune from the mid-1950s through the late ...