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Victory Gardens Theater places artistic director ‘on leave’ and sees a mass resignation of...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 2 years agoVictory Gardens Theater, a venerable and Tony Award-winning Chicago company that has seen more than its share of staff turmoil in recent years, appears to have entered another deeply unstable ...
As the Biograph remains dark, Victory Gardens Theater board speaks out and addresses critics
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAfter a prolonged silence that was attributed to legal obligations and the advice of lawyers, the Victory Gardens Theater board of directors hit back at its critics Wednesday by posting two ...
Review: ‘cullud wattah’ at Victory Gardens Theater is a strong condemnation of the water crisis in...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 2 years agoFluids drip everywhere in “cullud wattah,” the potent new drama by Erika Dickerson-Despenza about the contamination crisis of Flint, Michigan, now at the Victory Gardens Theater. And not just ...
Victory Gardens Theater, in turmoil, cancels performances of ‘cullud wattah’
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe crisis at Victory Gardens Theater deepened Friday as the company canceled all of its upcoming performances of ”cullud wattah” after the playwright, Erika Dickerson-Despenza, exercised her ...
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins births a Chicago political drama at Steppenwolf with ‘Purpose’
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 2 months ago“Stick a few movie or TV stars in ‘Appropriate,'” I wrote in this newspaper of a show at Chicago’s...
How Hartford Stage, Long Wharf joined regional theaters throughout the U.S. to support fired fellow...
Hartford Courant via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWhen Ken-Matt Martin was fired from his job as artistic director of Chicago’s Victory Gardens Theatre, other theater leaders found a novel way of expressing their outrage. They have commissioned ...
Eat. Watch. Do. — Return of the McKatsu, ‘Lightyear’ review, plus July Fourth fireworks
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 2 years agoHappy Wednesday, Chicago. And happy official start of summer! (I hope your air conditioners are in good shape and won’t break down, as mine did over the weekend.) If you’re looking to stay indoors ...
A Chicago theater's staff unionizes amid protests of its board of directors
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe staff at Victory Gardens Theater have begun the process to unionize, The Times has learned. It's the latest move in an ongoing standoff between the storied Chicago institution's employees ...
Ronnie Marmo plans to bring the Richard Christiansen Theatre back to life
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 4 months agoAfter years of darkness induced by both a pandemic and an internal crisis at the Victory Gardens Theater Company, the Richard Christiansen Theatre inside Chicago’s historic Biograph Theatre ...
Writers Theatre announces 2024-2025 season
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 3 months agoWriters Theatre in Glencoe has announced its new subscription season. The five-show slate launches with the Chicago premiere of the 2016 Broadway musical...