From Chicago: Beyond the Bylines

AMERICAN THEATRE: The Chicago Tribune’s Chris Jones keeps up with his BeReal. The Washington Post’s Naveen Kumar travels the world by storm. The New York Times’s Maya Phillips touts that she’s an anime nerd. And The New Yorker’s Justin Chang quips like a stand-up comic. The National Critics Institute, a two-week workshop for arts writers at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, transformed how I view not only my own capacities in the world as a writer, but the gorgeous, quotidian humanity of giants in arts journalism.