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Victory Gardens Theater
US theater company / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other uses, see Victory Garden (disambiguation).
Victory Gardens Theater is a theater company in Chicago, Illinois dedicated to the development and production of new plays and playwrights. The theater company was founded in 1974 when eight Chicago artists, Cecil O'Neal, Warren Casey, Stuart Gordon, Cordis Heard, Roberta Maguire, Mac McGuinnes, June Pyskaček, and David Rasche each fronted $1,000 to start a company outside the Chicago Loop and Gordon donated the light board of his Organic Theater Company. The theater's first production, The Velvet Rose, by Stacy Myatt, premiered on October 9, 1974.[1]
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Address | 2433 N. Lincoln Avenue |
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Location | Chicago, IL 60614 |
Coordinates | 41.9263801°N 87.6498738°W / 41.9263801; -87.6498738 |
Seating type | Reserved seating |
Opened | 1974 |
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