Redtwist is proud to present a queer adaptation of Maurine Watkins 1926 satire, Chicago. A satire of lawyers, journalists, and the criminals who keep them employed. It’s the roaring 20s and Roxy Hart is desperate to get out of Cook County Jail and onto the Vaudeville stage. Join Redtwist in rediscovering this classic story of the Windy City written by the Tribune journalist who first reported on the real murderesses of Chicago.

Chicago: Queerly Adapted from the Play You’ve Never Heard of that Inspired the Musical You Can’t Get Away From, by Maurine Dallas Watkins; Adapted by Eileen Dixon & Dusty Brown

Join us for a specially curated evening of live music, poetry, and holiday cheer- hosted by Redtwist Event Director, Jasmine “Jaz” Robertson. It’s the most wonderful time of the year!

Sandra is an accomplished professor, comfortable in her position until a racist cartoon is nailed to her office door; Sara is a slave in the Deep South, fighting for her freedom and spying for the union as the nation is pulled into Civil War. Despite the century between them, both women raise their voice against the institutions of racism and misogyny that hold them back. Dominique Morriseau’s (author of Detroit ’67 and Skeleton Crew) Confederates leaps through time to trace the identities of these two Black American women and the truths that bond them.

Life has beaten Jessie down. Spiraling between a failed marriage, a cruel son, and an aging parent, Jessie is determined to take control over the one sliver of life left to her. When new horrors batter at her daily; when society isolates her and the world turns to chaos; when a promised future dwindles and her hope fades: Jessie digs up her father’s old pistol. Marsha Norman’s Pulitzer Prize winning play catapults through a mother and daughter’s darkest day together.