Chicago Theater News – think fast…

Posted on August 2, 2008 by Scotty Zacher

The Jeff Awards Committee (Chicago’s version of Broadway’s Tony Awards) has made changes for the next awards cycle, and will now only give out one award for each Non-Equity Jeff Award category (save for “New Work” and “New Adaptation”).   As of August 1st, Chicago Dramatists is officially 30-years old!  Happy Anniversary!  That’s 30 years [...]

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Blagojovich Cuts Arts Budgets!!

Posted on September 22, 2007 by Scotty Zacher

An article in PerformInk, by Jonathan Abarbanel, explains the bad (but hopefully temporary) news: Blagojovich Cuts Arts Budgets BY jonathan abarbanel In a high-risk game of political brinksmanship, Governor Rod Blagojevich in mid-August used his line-item veto to slash hundreds of millions of dollars out of the state budget passed by both houses of the [...]

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