NEW YORK — When I first saw Tracy Letts’ “The Minutes” in 2017 in Chicago, director Anna D. Shapiro’s sizzling Steppenwolf Theatre production felt like a takedown of Donald Trump’s
But this intense play now feels aimed not so much at Trumpism but at how small-town council and school-board meetings are turning into war zones, their traditional reliance on Robert’s Rules of Order supplanted not just by screaming matches but by quietly devastating executions of majority power.