Playwright J. Nicole Brooks Puts Chicago History On Stage

Playwright J. Nicole Brooks Puts Chicago History On Stage

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J. Nicole Brooks has made a name for herself by writing plays about Chicago and its long history with racial injustice and segregation. Reset discusses how this current protest moment informs her craft, her play about Jane Byrne that got shut down because of the covid-19 pandemic, and more