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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Curtains for the Uptown Hull House Center theater
An 11th-hour effort fails to save the longtime home of Organic and Black Ensemble theater companies.
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How much is that playwright in the window? On view now: the Storefront Playwright Project
Storefront Playwright Project puts Emilio Williams (and a couple dozen other playwrights) in the Hot Tix window
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League of Chicago Theatres Steps Into the Saints Fray
My August 20 column about a struggle on the board of the Saints— the volunteer organization that provides ushers for Chicago’s nonprofit theaters—drew dozens of comments both from people who identified themselves as Saints and others.