One of the unique and much welcome eccentricities of Chicago’s theatre scene is the spirit of cooperation between some of the city’s largest and smallest houses and companies. “The easy flow of audiences and artists between Chicago’s large, established theaters and the scrappy up-and-comers has been instrumental in maintaining its stature as the country’s most vibrant dramatic capital after New York, allowing now-celebrated artists… to make their way from the fringes to the mainstream.”