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The Mobile Museum of Tolerance stopped in Palatine this week. The museum, an offshoot of the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, visits Bensenville next week.

Mobile museum rolls through suburbs teaching lessons of Civil Rights Movement, Holocaust

A bus parked in the lot by the Palatine Park District Community Center is taking visitors on a virtual trip through history, teaching lessons about the civil rights movement and the Holocaust that resonate in today’s society.

Writers Theatre’s stellar Midwest premiere of Tom Stoppard’s Tony Award-winning “Leopoldstadt” marks another triumph for the Glencoe theater.

Stoppard’s sweeping family drama ‘Leopoldstadt’ dazzles at Writers Theatre

If Writers Theatre ever joins the ranks of Regional Theatre Tony Award winners, its bravura Midwest premiere of “Leopoldstadt” will have played a role in that honor.

Jessie (voiced by Joan Cusack) and toys hopefully check in on Bonnie in “Toy Story 5.”

It’s (digital) apocalypse now for toys in ‘Toy Story 5’

There are some basic things going for the latest “Toy Story” movie. This one moves Joan Cusack’s Jessie closer to the center. And the cute-as-a-button Bonnie is an upgrade over Andy. But, most of all, “Toy Story 5” is predicated on an extremely relatable conflict for kids and parents, alike: digital tech and screen time.

Stan’s Maple Bacon Long John returns for Father’s Day weekend.

Dining out: Where to treat dad on Father’s Day

If dad is the cook in your home, make Sunday the day you take him out for a brunch or dinner, or even a Maple Bacon Long John. Here are some suburban options awaiting your reservation.

Morgan Wallen will perform Friday and Saturday, June 19-20, at Chicago’s Soldier Field with special guests Brooks & Dunn, Ella Langley, Gavin Adcock and Zach John King.

Concerts June 19-25: Morgan Wallen, Tash Sultana, Rosalía and more

Upcoming concerts include Morgan Wallen at Soldier Field, Tash Sultana at the Salt Shed, Rosalía at the United Center, Rodney Crowell at SPACE and more.

The Kung Fu Boys perform with The Flip Circus this summer in Vernon Hills, Aurora, Gurnee, Lombard, Schaumburg and North Riverside.

Best Bets: Flip Circus tours the suburbs this summer

The Flip Circus begins its suburban summer tour, Kohl Children’s Museum debuts “WhirlWind,” Waukegan hosts the inaugural Little Fort Film Festival, and the Cantigny Jazz Fest hosts a tribute to Miles Davis on Sunday.

Naim (Joe Bird), left, and Ryan (Stacy Clausen) awkwardly fall for each other in “Leviticus.”

‘Leviticus’ makes a demon out of desire in an auspicious debut for Adrian Chiarella

What if the object of your desire was also the thing that’s trying to kill you? Not slowly irritating you to death for leaving the toilet seat up again. We mean actively trying to strangle you. That’s the intriguing premise behind the horror-satire “Leviticus.”