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Ask and you shall receive… an educated guess
Yesterday, news that Chicago’s Mercury Theatre was facing foreclosure made its way around the the web. Out of that, the size question was inevitably raised about the theatre, as it is an intimate space, but with a larger house than most with that size of a stage (my count was 285 seats at the... »
The obligitory look back at 2009
I tell myself that I’m not going to do one of these, and then remember that they are marginally useful. Here’s just a few of the stories we looked at in the last year. Learn past or repeat… Chicago started off 2009 with the loss of its free downtown trolleys. Tourists (especially those heading to... »
Pic of the Day for Dec 3rd, 2009
Load in of The Radio City Christmas Spectacular at The Grand Ole Opry, Nashville, TN. This pic, as well as this one and this one, was taken by ept_0202, and posted in our I Work Backstage Flickr group. »
Odds and ends for November 21, 2009
Roberts Brothers Coach Company driver William G. Douglas, of Austin, Texas died early Friday morning when his bus crashed south of Richmond, VA. Douglas was driving the lighting crew bus, one of four buses for the Miley Cyrus tour, when it went off the road and overturned on Interstate 85, near Dinwiddle, VA. Fourteen... »
Around the theatre web for August 8th, 2009
IATSE Local 482 has filed a grievance against the University of Illinois protesting U of I’s hiring of a non-union, out-of-state company to install hoist systems in the university’s Assembly Hall. Local 482 members have been picketing Assembly Hall for the last two weeks, claiming this violates their contract with the university. IATSE has... »
Hudson & Gaines
