It's an outlet to help others with similar stories that also provides resources for those still coping. According to the site, over 2,000 stories have been submitted via email since 2023.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:44PM[SHARE]The touring production comes to Chicago as a free work designed as an intervention to educate people on the HIV epidemic in marginalized communities.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:00AM[SHARE]You may know Charlique Rolle as Congo Square Theater's executive director. Now she is the new president of the Black Arts & Culture Alliance of Chicago.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:46PM[SHARE]Pearl Cleage on what it means to have a Chicago festival focused on her work, including "The Nacirema Society" at the Goodman Theatre.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:00AM[SHARE]The playwright and screenwriter said it was important to support small theaters, especially during the Hollywood writer's strike.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:00AM[SHARE]Since Dwight White left Northwestern in 2016, he's been saying a lot through art centered on the Black experience, melding oil paints and acrylics, sociology and experiential design into soc…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:42PM[SHARE]Congo Square Theatre's latest production, "How Blood Go," centers on the bias found in the American health care system.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:15PM[SHARE]We spoke with playwright Christina Anderson and star Christiana Clark about what they want us to see in the work.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:00PM[SHARE]The nonprofit Make Believe Association asks: Can the people of Chicago come together to save their city and each other in the year 2098?
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:36PM[SHARE]Congo Square Theatre and artist Brandon Breaux reach out through art to help the Black community heal from racialized violence.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:07PM[SHARE]The theater group known for socially conscious work is staging the first-known dramatization of the actual text from the monumental Mississippi case.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:55PM[SHARE]When a cat celebrity escapes from O'Hare and is lost on the streets of Chicago, who will come to the rescue? Three youth with disabilities. "When I read the script, I cried because it's so s…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:00AM[SHARE]Walk and listen to "Ghosts of Bloomingdale Trail" at your own pace, using QR codes along the way to hear ghost stories by Chicagoans.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:55AM[SHARE]The Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation surveyed its performing arts grantees and 27% are unable to welcome audiences in-person, and 16% remain uncertain about returning to the stage th…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 07:30AM[SHARE]'Hummingbird,' a new virtual-reality play designed for younger tech-savvy audiences, debuts at UIC with plans to move to the Goodman Theatre this fall.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:00AM[SHARE]Chicago Children's Theatre's "Walkie Talkies" self-guided podcasts are a new way for families to take a walk, release stress and create happy shared family memories until we can be back toge…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:00AM[SHARE]Public figures and celebrities say they "don't see color" or they "don't see race." But race is something that Northeastern Illinois University is bringing to the forefront with its collabor…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:10PM[SHARE]On an October evening a small crowd of theater-goers get to meet Christopher Boone, the central character of the play, "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" at Steppenwolf Thea…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:20AM[SHARE]War! What is it good for? In the case of the Poetry Foundation and Manual Cinema's latest collaboration, it's good for "Three World War I Poems," a nine-minute video that commemorates 100 ye…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:35PM[SHARE]"Wait, Wait … Don't Tell Me" is stepping out of the Chase Auditorium in favor of Millennium Park on Thursday for a live show. On this, their 20th anniversary year, host Peter Sagal will be…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:50PM[SHARE]Remember the "Sesame Street" song that includes the lyrical question: Who are the people in your neighborhood? The people that you meet when you're walking down the street. The people that y…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:54PM[SHARE]Poet. Teacher. Mentor. All are words synonymous with Gwendolyn Brooks. Born in Topeka, Kan., in 1917, Brooks made her name as a poet in Chicago. A Bronzeville resident, she grew up writing "…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:15PM[SHARE]Manual Cinema's space in the Kimball Arts Center is deceiving to an outsider's eye. The garage/warehouse facade feels reminiscent of a workspace not frequented, but inside, two rooms hold an…
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