Reporter Wants More Impact For His Blockbuster Story, So He Turns To Theatre

“Assassination Theater, now in a run at the Museum of Broadcast Communications, is a provocative multimedia history lesson dressed up as a docudrama. An engrossing, rapid-fire exposé of “Chicago’s role in the crime of the century,” with tourist-attraction aspirations, it seeks to build on the dicey thing our city’s best known for but usually tries to ditch—its legendary status as a hub of organized crime.”