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Chicago, That Towering Theater Town: Raw Energy Generates World-Class Drama |
| Section: THE ARTS / THEATER |
| Author: Nicholas Rudall |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1988 |
| Size: 2,544 Words, 15,005 Characters |
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Within the past decade, Chicago has acquired not only a national but an international reputation as a city overflowing with theatrical energy. After the first successful exports electrified the nonregional theater world, the East Coast media created, then perpetuated, their own myths about this midwestern phenomenon. One of these myths held that Chicago possessed over one hundred flourishing theaters. This number was taken from a local compilation of all functioning theatrical programs, almost all of them literally amateur and including many that belonged to small colleges and churches. But the myth persisted and continues to persist.
In actual fact there are only about a dozen not-for-profit professional Equity theaters in the city. The largest of these, the Goodman, seats a little ...
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...rgy in Chicago theater. There is a remarkable feeling of excitement when a new season begins. The sheer volume is astonishing. But it is the choice of repertoire that constitutes the challenge. In September, it was like watching dozens of high-wire acts stepping out simultaneously. There is no safety net. Fortunately, there is no ringmaster. There is only the risk and the "dance with failure."
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