Chicago’s Tony-Winning Lookingglass Theatre Pauses Programming, Cuts Staff Weeks After L.A.’s Taper And Brooklyn’s BAM Take Similar Actions
deadline.comIn 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.
The move comes just two weeks after the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles announced that theater productions will be halted in July for the rest of the 2023-24 season.
Earlier this month, New York’s Brooklyn Academy of Music 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.
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