Do theaters mistreat their artists? What about in Chicago? Mike Daisey makes his passionate case, by Chris Jones
Whenever theater people assemble—or blog, or comment on blogs—some variation of one bitter point of contention invariably bubbles to the surface: The perceived lack of responsiveness of America's major regional theaters to the artists who live and work around them. As Mike Daisey tells it in his provocative, one-man show <cite>How Theater Failed America</cite>, the typical, big American theater jets in a …