21 stories by "Aimee Levitt"
It would have been easy to begin this letter by writing "Chicago is a theater town," but also stupid because everybody knows that, even people who don't live here: Steppenwolf, Second City, …
In the two years since the secret Not in Our House Facebook group was formed, a number of things have changed. Chief among them is that Profiles Theatre no longer exists.…
A social media firestorm of allegations of sexual harassment and emotional abuse ignited Tuesday afternoon and incinerated Dead Writers Collective, a six-year-old theater company, which anno…
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 o…
A life in the theater, on- or offstage, is so notoriously difficult that it's become romanticized. Young, aspiring actors and crew members expect long hours, late nights, and hard physic…
Since Profiles Theatre abruptly closed its doors nearly a month ago, six days after the Reader published its investigation of alleged abuse and misconduct within the theater, there has be…
In a Tribune article about the closing of Profiles Theatre in the wake of a Reader investigation, reporters Chris Jones and Nina Metz address the theater's use of pseudonyms in previous t…
Darrell W. Cox, coartistic director of the now-closed Profiles Theatre, has denied accusations of abuse leveled against him by former actors and crew members in last week's Reader cover s…
Profiles Theatre has shut down permanently, effective immediately.
Just six days after the Reader published an investigation into alleged abuse at the acclaimed storefront theater,…
Activists calling for a code of conduct in non-Equity theaters have declined to meet with Darrell W. Cox, the actor and artistic director accused of misconduct at Profiles Theatre, unless he…
Penelope Skinner, the British playwright whose 2011 play The Village Bike was scheduled to open at Profiles Theatre in August, has withdrawn the rights to the script after reading this we…
Last night, after reading this week's Reader cover story about alleged abuses at Profiles Theatre, Gaby Labotka, a Chicago actor and director, decided to go to the theater and hand out…
Theater communities in Chicago and across the country reacted swiftly to the publication of this week's Reader cover story""At Profiles Theatre, the drama"and abuse"is real""condemning the a…
For more than 20 years, actors and crew members stayed silent about mistreatment they suffered at the acclaimed storefront theater. Now they're speaking up, hoping to protect workers in non-…
As its title implies, Rebecca Gilman's new play, Soups, Stews, and Casseroles: 1976, is set during the American bicentennial"but its roots are very much in the present day, notably the 20…
Rhinofest, Curious Theatre Branch's fringe theater festival, continues through Sunday, February 28, at Prop Theatr (3502 N. Elston). Now in its 27th year, the fest has departed from its usua…
The catalog for Shakespeare 400 Chicago is officially out now, both online and in print. As festival producer Doreen Sayegh promised when I talked to her the other day, it is, indeed, possib…
If you like Shakespeare, well, 2016 is your year. From January 27 on, you'll be able to attend a Bard-related event nearly every day if you so desire, courtesy of Chicago Shakespeare's Shake…
John Steinbeck intended East of Eden to be the book of his life. He planned to set down the story of his own personal origins for his two sons, and he meant that both literally and cosmicall…
On the third day of rehearsal for the Goodman Theatre's new production of Ayad Akhtar's Disgraced, the director Kimberly Senior took her cast and stage managing crew on a field trip to the A…
If you're going to produce a theatrical production based on interviews with Chicagoans talking about food, Albany Park is as good a place to start as any. Not only is it one of the most dive…
