🎭 Fill out your theater bingo card with Chicago Theatre Week (2/16-2/26), with a special focus on Black History Month productions from LoCTIndustry, ChicagoPlays, and more companies. | ✍️ kerryreid
, presented by Collaboraction at the DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center through February 19. The production is part of Chicago Theatre Week, running through February 26.That’s what Jimalita Tillman, global director for the Harold Washington Cultural Center, said at the Chicago Theatre Week kick-off party Monday night at Wicker Park’s Den Theatre.
She wasn’t being metaphorical either. Theater audiences who check out participating shows starting today through February 26 can literally fill out a bingo card, with slots for categories such as “a comedy,” “a show at a theatre you’ve never been to,” and “a show on the south side of the city.” Tillman, whose original musical comedyat the HWCC , was betting that audiences may not have been to see her company before.
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