“It proved to be a fallacy that this comeback season was going to be smooth sailing for all of us,” says Brooke Flanagan, the executive director of theFollowing postponements, Steppenwolf has no shows until March. Chicago Shakespeare Theater, a busy institution vital to the winter well-being of Navy Pier, is dark for in-person shows until late April. Lookingglass Theatre Company, one of the city’s most acclaimed companies, has nothing up until May.
One of the cruel omicron ironies was that the surging COVID-19 variant actually snagged theaters who had tried to be as conservative as possible, by staying dark over the summer of 2021 and conserving resources until the climate was more favorable, or so they thought. Certain truths seem to have revealed themselves, a series of interviews with theater professionals suggested.
The longtime youth-oriented theater company Playmakers Laboratory told the Tribune Wednesday it was shutting down. The company was known for its long-running production “That’s Weird, Grandma” that used professional actors and crew to celebrate the creative writing of students in Chicago Public Schools on stage.
Individual philanthropists also were crucial to the ability of the companies either to continue to produce or to go into hibernation, the leaders say. “The world’s slowing down,” says Definition executive director Neel McNeil, “allowed all of us to refocus.”
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