by Mia Levenson
‘Botticelli in the Fire’ isn’t history — not by a long shot. But here’s a primer on the real figures who inspired the characters in the play:
By Kirsten Bowen
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…
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?”