In Chicago's 'Clybourne Park,' everything and nothing seem to change
If you question whether the discussion of Chicago's racist history can still cause shivers among modern-day Chicago theatergoers, you need only watch what happens at the Steppenwolf Theatre in the first act of Bruce Norris' searing play "Clybourne Park." Quite often there are moments in theater when an audience, suddenly brought to attention, falls quiet. But the silence that suddenly descends at Steppenwolf when a w…