Other People's Money may be the best revenge.
by Tony Adler
One of the biggest and bitterest Chicago arts stories of the last several years came out of Victory Gardens Theater, where the board got feisty with some of its most prominent employees, including Dennis Zacek and Marcelle McVay, the husband-and-wife team that ran the company for more than three decades. The full blow-by-blow would require an evening and some drinks; suffice it to say that the board made a series of decisions that alienated Zacek and McVay, arguably squeezed them out, and then—once they were gone—seemed to repudiate the things they'd stood for.…[ Read more ]