Chicago Theatre Week Archives

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Deb Clapp takes final bows at the League of Chicago Theatres

by Kerry Reid February 22, 2022February 22, 2022

When I was first doing theater in Chicago back in the Pleistocene era (that is, the late 1980s), the League of Chicago Theatres (formed in 1979 as the Off Loop Producers Association) seemed most notable for running the Hot Tix discount ticket booth and offering co-op advertising rates to member theaters in publications like the […]

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Ghost Light

Steep plans a big move—just down the street

by Kerry Reid February 9, 2022February 11, 2022

In summer of 2020, Steep Theatre announced that they were losing their longtime Berwyn Avenue home (just next to the Red Line stop). The landlord was selling the building, which contained both the flexible-seating 60-seat black box theater and the adjoining Boxcar bar and performance lounge that Steep opened in 2018. At the time, Steep […]