Russ Tutterow was a playwright’s “greatest advocate and friend,” Goodman Theatre artistic director Robert Falls said Monday night, welcoming about 300 members of Chicago’s theater community to a memorial event the Goodman hosted. “Russ, in this city, was central in his vision as a playwright’s agent . . . a playwright’s everything,” Falls said of the longtime Chicago Dramatists artistic director, who died May 4 at the age of 68 after a battle with cancer.
Deanna Isaacs
At the Russ Tutterow memorial, a cell phone tribute
So, with director Richard Shavzin serving as master of ceremonies, the stories and comments tumbled out—some submitted in advance to be read onstage by a roster of playwrights (including Mia McCullough, Will Dunne, Rob Koon), others surfacing spontaneously from the crowd.
