The Reader‘s archive is vast and varied, going back to 1971. Every day in Archive Dive, we’ll dig through and bring up some finds.
At the time, at least as Hamid presents it in his story, it was a ballsy move. Now, in a time when Second City employees—though not the performers—are voting to unionize (albeit unsuccessfully) and actors in general are less shy about speaking up about mistreatment, it seems like a harbinger of things to come.
