Smart, Sharp “SWEAT” Christens Copley Theatre!
PicksInSix® Review | Ed Tracy

Art imitated life Wednesday night as the audience was settling in for the grand opening of Copley Theatre, the sparkling, state-of-the-art black box in Aurora where “SWEAT,” Lynn Nottage’s 2017 Pulitzer Prize-winning play is playing through April 24. There was no small amount of irony to learn that as the lights were coming up for the show, which tells the story of union-busting activities in Reading, Pennsylvania, Chicago media reporter Rob Feder was about to release that broadcast technicians of Chicago’s IBEW Local Union 1220 had walked out on strike at WTTW, leading to the cancellation of the night’s live local PBS news program.