Nearly 300 members of the Chicago theater community gathered at a town hall meeting at Victory Gardens Theater Tuesday night to discuss the problem of a lack of roles for performers of color and why, despite the many black, Latino, and Asian actors in Chicago, some of these roles still go to white actors. The meeting was precipitated by Porchlight Theatre's announcement last week that it had cast a non-…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 01:30PM on August 11, 2016