Nick Offerman is quite the combo platter. Whether he’s acting in television or film, writing a New York Times best seller (he has four under his belt), or making a dining room table out of a nice slab of elm, he’s always on the go. These days, he’s wearing the hat of “comedian” for a 37-state tour of his latest one-man show, All Rise, which he describes as an evening of “deliberative talking and light dance with several songs and stories.” I had the chance to chat with Offerman ahead of the show’s stop at the Chicago Theatre on Sunday, September 15. The following is an edited version of our conversation.
A lot of people don’t know about your days as a breakdancer in Minooka, Illinois. Would you care to explain? My cousin and I were very popular down at the skating rink with our two-man breakdancing team, Tik Tok and Flip Flop, and you know, I think we may have won third place one time in some sort of competition.
Sun 9/15, 7 PM, Chicago Theatre, 175 N. State, msg.com/the-chicago-theatre, $45.
