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The Artistic Business Of Fluxible Innovation How Chicago theater can stay modern and relevant

Designing the Details How missing pieces in the design puzzle can throw off the whole show.

A Passion to Give Brett Neveu on how to give to theaters without writing a check.

All Plays Are Local A play about gentrification and its chokehold on small business

A Rejection of Risk It's not easy for a theater to both lead the way and be commerically viable, and the playwright is left relaying on luck and timing, according to Brett Neveu

My Kind of Tone Chicago-grown theater is a strange little cog that has the potential to make the whole mess go kerflewie if it's not manager correctly, and Chicago theater artisits are the last ones who ever want (or need) to be managed (street theater of the '60s and '70s is a prime example).

Dreamweaver Mary Zimmerman and Her Creative Process

The Ending as a Process of Beginning Goat Island's decision to create a last performance has given rise to a series of discoveries

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