The spokesperson acknowledged that the exit from producing meant that the theater this week dismissed its remaining nine full-time staffers and nine part-timers, a decision it said was made due to “operational realities.”
“The Victory Gardens Board of Directors’ patterns of toxic behavior have made it impossible for this Black-led, mission-centric organization to succeed, leading to the loss of its leadership, the resignation of all resident artists, and a joint plea from staff and artists for the Board’s resignation and the reinstatement of Ken-Matt Martin as artistic director,” the group said inIn its own statement, the theater’s board of directors said that the theater was dealing with “the reality of two...
One of the theater’s biggest donors, Steve Miller, a supporter who had retired the theater’s outstanding mortgage on the Biograph, 2433 N. Lincoln Ave., left the boardof former executive director Erica Daniels, an administrator known among other things for her fundraising prowess and audience cultivation.
I still miss it as a movie theater. Mom took me there to see Big on a school night. What a treat.