In Chicago, We Love Our Crooks!

They Have A Desire To Put On Plays And To Fulfill That Traditional Role Of A Theater In A Community: To Be The Place Where People Go To Hear The Truth.

Opportunity May Knock, But It Seldom Nags.

My Dad Was An Immigrant Kid And A Democrat And A Jew, And We Didn't Know Any Republicans In Our Group. So I Grew Up Democratic. My Dad Was A Labor Lawyer - A Very Hardworking Guy, A One-horse Labor Lawyer - And Then I Went To Hippie College And Lived In The Bubble.

Freud Believed That Our Dreams Sometimes Recapitulate A Speech, A Comment We've Heard Or Something That We've Read. I Always Had Compositions In My Dreams. They Would Be A Joke, A Piece Of A Novel, A Witticism Or A Piece Of Dialogue From A Play, And I Would Dream Them. I Would Actually Express Them Line By Line In The Dream. Sometimes After Waking Up I Would Remember A Snatch Or Two And Write Them Down. There's Something In Me That Just Wants To Create Dialogue.

Like Lincoln Said: "if Slavery Is Not Wrong, Nothing Is Wrong," And I Feel The Same Way About The Leftist Dismantling Of The West. If That's Not Wrong, Then Nothing Is Wrong.