Theaters across the country, including those in Chicago, are facing unprecedented issues that began with the pandemic shutdown, which, over time, served to highlight many other pre-pandemic woes — an aging audience, the invasion of stay-at-home streaming entertainment and the decline of theater subscriptions.
Yes, there is much to mourn on the theater scene as companies have for a myriad of reasons closed or slowed down their production schedules while others continue to face an uncertain future.
