Terry McCabe

Many theaters closed down for a short time during the pandemic, including Nederlander Theatre in Chicago's Loop, shown here on March 30, 2020.

Terry McCabe: Chicago’s off-Loop theater scene is shrinking. The audience isn’t to blame.

August 30, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

For the first time in its 60-year history, Chicago's off-Loop theater scene is shrinking. As someone who has worked in that scene for 43 of those years, I have this...

INSTRUMENTAL IDEAS

August 11, 2021 at 3:48 a.m.

Charles M. Madigan misquotes Pete Seeger's banjo in a story about Art Thieme (Tempo, July 20). It was Woody Guthrie's guitar that bore the slogan "This machine kills fascists." Seeger's...

WHY IT`S NECESSARY TO FUND CONTROVERSIAL ART, TOO

August 10, 2021 at 2:41 p.m.

As someone who works in the arts, I am naturally disturbed by the furor surrounding government funding of controversial art. I am particularly disheartened by the level of debate engendered...

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