Chicago’s Cinco de Mayo Parade, here on May 5, 2013, is this weekend on Cermak Road, starting from Damen. Dozens of local food producers will set up shop to open this year’s season at Green City Market West Loop in Mary Bartelme Park. The market will operate on Saturdays through November.
Following fast on the heels of the beloved Emmy Award-winning TV show’s season finale, “Bluey’s Big Play” takes the stage in Chicago. The show, featuring a new story by series creator Joe Brumm and music by the show composer Joff Bush, uses puppets to bring the animated dogs to life.
Watch seven 10-minute plays — drama, sci-fi, dark comedy — at this year’s installment of Artistic Home’s annual festival in Wicker Park. Work by Chicago playwrights Siah Berlatsky, Will Dunne and Lydia Moss will be featured. Through May 12 at Northlight Theatre at North Shore Center for the Arts, 9501 Skokie Blvd., Skokie; tickets $49-$89 atA new exhibition featuring nearly 100 ancient Mesoamerican artifacts dating to 1500 BCE to 1400 CE considers the role of women in the Huasteca civilization. The sculptures and figures excavated from areas along the Gulf of Mexico portray women as deities, priestesses, governors and warriors.