What’s Familiar, What’s Familial, and What’s Unknowable In Between

He Took A Knee This Past Weekend — At His Curtain Call, Not On the Sidelines

A raging national debate…

Hi. I’m Trey, and I’m a theater critic.

In which introductions are made, a production is rehearsed…

Danai Gurira, Mapping Another Cultural Crossroads In ‘Familiar’

By Kirsten Bowen

Deconstructing the All-American Legend of the Underground Railroad

What you were taught about it…

Y’all know The Second City is kind of a thing, right? I mean, y’know it at least vaguely? Been around for a while, some of its veterans gone on to fame and fortune, that sort of…

‘Humanizing the Fuckups’: Felonius Munk on Comedy, ‘Chains’ and Second Chances

The Chicago-based actor…

Complicity & Conflict: Following ‘The Arsonists’ Beyond Our Comfort Zones

History Is All Around Us

Every place has one — and every object, too. Especially in Washington, D.C.