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Victory 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 ...
CHICAGO — Victory Gardens Theater, a vibrant fixture here since 1974, had long prided itself on being a champion of diversity while also bringing new works to its audiences.
The board of directors at Victory Gardens Theater has voted to transition the long-lived Chicago theater away from producing its own shows and will instead be a presenting organization, a move ...
Chicago’s historic Biograph Theatre, the home of the long-dormant Victory Gardens Theater Company, will reopen next month with a new play by David Mamet titled “Henry Johnson.” The show will ...
Victory Gardens had routinely made the smaller 109-seat upstairs Richard Christiansen Theater available for rent, especially to resident companies such as Sideshow.
Victory Gardens Theater’s playwrights ensemble and resident directors resigned from the nearly 50-year-old institution Wednesday. The organization’s artistic director, Ken-Matt Martin, is on ...
CHICAGO — Ken-Matt Martin, the incoming artistic director of Victory Gardens Theater here, said he never has revealed this publicly before, but he has a Sankofa bird tattooed on his back. This ...
A Chicago theater’s staff unionizes amid protests of its board of directors Victory Gardens Theater, the major regional theater company in Chicago where the staff has unionized.
Victory Gardens Theater cancels remaining performances of ‘cullud wattah’ amid company upheaval The move comes on the heels of a week filled with turmoil for the theater, including the ...
Victory Gardens Theater has announced the further postponement of the 2021 Season, which included the Chicago premieres of cullud wattah by Erika Dickerson -Despenza and Heroes of the Fourth ...
NATIVE GARDENS runs through July 2 at Victory Gardens Theater, 2433 North Lincoln Avenue. Tickets are $15-$60. For more information, visit VictoryGardens.org. Photo by Liz Lauren ...
Tyla Abercrumbie and Matthew Elam play a mother and son in Victory Gardens Theater’s production of Dominique Morisseau’s play “Pipeline,” which examines the school-to-prison pipeline.