In the latest example of a nationwide funding crisis for nonprofit regional theaters, Chicago’s Tony Award-winning Lookingglass Theatre has announced a year-long pause in new productions and layoffs impacting 50% of its staff
announced that it would reduce its theatrical programming this season and cut staff by 13%, while NYC’s Public Theater announced that its highly influential Under the Radar Festival is on hold for the first time, outside the the Covid shutdown, since its inception in 2006.The theater companies have been hard-hit by an ongoing downturn in attendance and subscriptions in the wake of the Covid pandemic.
“Lookingglass is no exception. We are announcing today that we have to take the heavy, but intentional, step of reducing our staff and will be producing less and in different ways in the coming year as we re-imagine our future.”, closes on July 16. According to the Lookingglass statement, the company will proceed with a long-planned renovation of its lobby in Chicago’s Water Tower Water Works building with capital funding received from the state of Illinois specifically for that purpose. Lookingglass also will continue its education programs, new workshops, and “testing new imaginative programming ideas.”
In the statement to subscribers and supporters, Lookingglass said, “It is a hard moment, but we believe in impossible things. To make this next year of transformation possible, we are launching a public campaign and are seeking to raise an ambitious $2,500,000 so we can become the next version ofLookingglass was founded in 1988 by graduates of Northwestern University, and has since become nationally recognized for new works.
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