'Dead Wrong': Opens in Chicago
If you're in Chicago during the next month and looking for something different, check out "Dead Wrong", which came about when death row inmate Darby Tillis, who was released after it was proven he was framed for a double murder at a hot dog stand, went knocking on theater doors asking to put on a one-night show about his experience. [The Chicago Tribune reviews the show here.]
Tillis has the distinction of being one of the first exonerated Death Row inmates. He was sentenced to death in 1979 for a double murder at a hot dog stand in the Uptown neighborhood. Fingered by the real killer's girlfriend, who set him up to protect her boyfriend, Tillis went through five trials before he was freed in 1987 with the help of new evidence and petitions brought by Northwestern University's Center on Wrongful Convictions and the MacArthur Justice Center.
The theater company found his experience so compelling, they made the show part of its regular season. It opened last night and will run through May 15.
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