Paper Machete: The past, and future, of Chicago Theater

Paper Machete: The past, and future, of Chicago Theater

WBEZ brings you fact-based news and information. Sign up for our newsletters to stay up to date on the stories that matter.

In my lecture at World Theater Day (3/27), an event hosted by the League of Chicago Theatres, I spoke about the future of Chicago theater under the new mayorship. This segment briefly covers the last seven years in Chicago theater—which I consider to be a single generation in that scene—to illuminate how much has changed in the last store-front—to-main-stage epoch.