In the case of 'Normal Heart,' Chicago shouldn't have been a flyover
On very rare occasions, a night at the theater can feel like a red-hot political event. Such was the case last year on Broadway, where Joe Mantello's fevered revival of Larry Kramer's seminal AIDS drama "The Normal Heart" burned up the Golden Theatre, even as the ever-angry playwright stood on the sidewalk outside, handing out fliers about the disease. Both John Benjamin Hickey and Ellen Barkin delivered riveting per…