Redmoon Theater announced on an open letter on its website that it is closing after 25 years of operation.
In part, the letter reads, “It has been an honor to serve the City of Chicago for the past 25 years. We have been blessed to work in and with over 40 of Chicago’s 77 official neighborhoods and to bring our unique brand of spectacle to some of our finest institutions; to many of the city’s most revered public sites; and, most importantly, to some of its most overlooked neighborhoods.
“… Our core mission was to bring massive, unexpected free art to public spaces—to bring people together across difference in acts of momentary and meaningful celebration. From the Fire Festival in recent years to some of our earliest outdoor work, our dream was to create a new kind of urban ritual.”
Regarding why it’s closing, the letter states, “There is no funding model for this civic and social artistic vision. … [Q]uite simply and quite sadly, our innovations haven’t been able to keep up with our civic goals.”