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…

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

Safe spaces. Where we gonna find those these days?

The news is a nightmare. Concerts are killing grounds, and old enemies threaten nuclear devastation. Our…

On How We Know Things (And Why We Finally Act)

Maya Angelou said to believe people when they show you…

One of the questions we’ve been poking at in our conversations about The Arsonists is this: Where’s the line, for each of us, between quiet complicity and intervention? What pushes us out of our comfort zone and into action? What does it take, in an everyday setting, to make us “an activist?”