Theater in both Chicago and America has changed so much since 2019, it is almost unrecognizable. A long list of our storefront companies have closed.
, GayCo Productions, Gorilla Tango Theatre, Interrobang Theatre Project, Irish Theatre of Chicago, The New Coordinates, Provision Theater, Quest Theatre, Red Tape Theatre, Refuge Theatre Project, Right Brain Project, Route 66 Theatre Company, Side Project Theatre, Sideshow Theatre, Stockyards Theatre Project, Strange Tree Group, Underscore Theatre Co.
Beyond that, the answer to the question of what happened is, to put it mildly, a bitterly contested space. But the panic is real. The cast and Chicago set of Steppenwolf Theatre Company's 2007 world-premiere production of"August: Osage County" by Tracy Letts, directed by Anna D. Shapiro. Richard Cotovsky and Stephen Walker in the former Mary-Arrchie Theatre Co.’s 2016 production of"American Buffalo" by David Mamet.
Anger over compensation is intense. In the Washington Post, writer Monica Byrne recently took the atypically successful Milwaukee Repertory Theatre to task for paying its artistic leader $273,843 — a nice salary, for sure, but by point of comparison, striking writers and actors have been noting Hollywood executives who each make more thana year for a job that hardly is 100 times more work, or reflective of 100 times more talent and experience.
Not only have theater leaders been attacked in public, sometimes by attackers who are themselves questionable, so have nonprofit boards of directors, volunteers who are bound by laws in their roles that detractors rarely acknowledge. These posts are far less desirable now. Yet for all their imperfections, board members typically are a theater’s biggest individual donors.By no means can all of the problems be laid at theater’s own door.
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