CHICAGO — Not gonna lie, Dewayne Perkins, the multi-hyphenate entertainer (comedian, writer, actor, producer) has been on the Tribune’s radar for quite some time.
Critic Nina Metz has followed his trajectory ever since seeing him as part of the nine-member 3Peat improv group at iO Theatre in 2016. And according to Perkins, that was the same year that “The Blackening” was born in a sketch while Perkins was at The Second City.
For those unaware, “The Blackening,” makes fun of the old horror movie trope of the Black character always being the first to die, but flips the script of that by making all the characters in the spoof Black. The set of friends have to decide among themselves who will be sacrificed to the killer to save the rest of the group — the catch? The chosen one has to be the “Blackest” person among them.
