editorial<\/a> headlined: \u201cWe stand by our critic and a vital Chicago theater\u00a0scene.\u201d The opening paragraph stated: \u201cLet\u2019s begin by making one point clear: We support our theater critic, Hedy Weiss. She will continue to be a valued critic for the Sun-Times.\u201d<\/p>\nOne month later, new ownership of the Sun-Times under a group led by Edwin Eisendrath took over the paper.<\/p>\n
Since 2002 Weiss also has served as theater and dance critic for \u201cChicago Tonight,\u201d the nightly news magazine on WTTW-Channel 11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Eight months after the Chicago Sun-Times ran an editorial declaring \u201cWe support our theater critic, Hedy Weiss,\u201d the paper is dropping the curtain on her. \"Today is Hedy Weiss\u2019s last day as a Sun-Times employee,\" editor-in-chief Chris Fusco said Friday. \"She's had a remarkable 33-year career covering the theater and arts scene in Chicago, and... Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16747"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16747"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16756,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16747\/revisions\/16756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}