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1919

Steppenwolf’s '1919' Brings Poetry to the Stage in a Look Back at a Dark Period in Chicago History

On July 27, 1919, Eugene Williams, a Black teenager from Chicago, was murdered after he innocently floated into a territory of the Lake Michigan shore that was colloquially for “whites only.” People on the Lake Shore retaliated by throwing rocks at Williams, causing him to drown. This senseless murder ignited the Chicago Race Riots of […]

(left to right) Alexis Ward, Sheldon D. Brown, Jessica Dean Turner, Max Thomas, DeMorris Burrows and Sola Thompson in Steppenwolf Theatre’s world premiere adaptation of 1919 by Eve L. Ewing, adapted by J. Nicole Brooks, directed by Gabrielle Randle-Bent and Tasia A. Jones, running now through October 29, 2022 | Photo by Michael Brosilow
by Margaret Smith
October 25, 2022
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