There's been a quiet exit for director Jiri Zizka, who is no longer part of Center City's Wilma Theater after more than 30 years.
More than a decade after he and his wife, Blanka, divorced, she now has the title they long shared: artistic director.
Over the last two weeks, Zizka's name was removed from the programming for the forthcoming season. A theater spokesman Wednesday could not describe the circumstances of his departure.
Zizka, who fled Czechoslovakia in 1976, entered the Philadelphia theater scene with an adaptation of Animal Farm on a budget of $600. The couple developed the company's space on Sansom Street and later at Broad and Spruce Streets. He did not return a message seeking his plans.