Ghostlight was recently lucky enough to sits down with Karen Topham (aka chicagodramagirl) of
Chicago on Stage and talk about our origin and what made us think we could make it in the crowded Chicago theatre scene.
According
to the League of Chicago Theatres, there are about 200 theatre
companies in the city of Chicago. Wikipedia also lists about this many,
as well as thirty long-standing companies that are now defunct. And that
doesn’t even begin to include the multitudes of companies that have
appeared for a show or three only to vanish into the competitive haze of
the Chicago theatre community, which is, without doubt, one of the most
incredible live theatre markets in the country, but also one of the
most unforgiving.
Amid this whirl of dramatic
achievement and failure, it must take a certain kind of people with a
specific kind of audacity to start a whole new company from the ground
up, yet that is precisely what Holly Robison and Maria Burnham, late of
Strangeloop Theatre, and Chad Wise, founding member of New Millennium
Theatre, and seven other founding members including co-artistic director
Michael Wagman, are doing with Ghostlight Ensemble Theatre.
Read the entire article here.
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