We desperately need some official publications relating to this theater community and the League is the obvious group to fill this gap. Theater news is inevitably a bigger story in New York, and the coverage is much more competitive and hard-edged. Those in the New York theater, of course, are usually incapable of acknowledging serious work anywhere else. Not in New York tends to mean only Not in New York. So unless one's resume is bulging with credits from the Goodman or Steppenwolf, don't expect a lot of recognition in the Big Apple.
Most people merely have a vague sense of there being a lot of theater in Chicago.
We need more commercial productions here. We need better organization, more industry-wide attention paid to actor salaries, more openness to new directors. And it's time someone produced one of the young Irish playwrights whose work has New York ablaze. Newcity Chicago . Info Booth .