Our 2025 & Beyond Fundraiser
In our 5th year what we request is that you continue to help us grow into our 6th year in 2025 by donating anywhere between $5-$20 or more if you are feeling even more generous! This past year we have been able to have our own office building on 79th street in Chicago, where we are able to hold small community events and rehearsals and we want to make sure we keep our building into many years to come when we upgrade to an even bigger space in the next 5 years to come.
In 1881, Black laundresses in Atlanta led a strike weeks before the International Cotton Exposition came to town. Demanding $1/dozen pounds of laundry, the Atlanta Washerwomen’s Strike of 1881 was one of the largest, successful interracial labor strikes of the post-Civil War era. "The Wash" offers an intimate and often funny look at ordinary women who went from workers to fighters– and won. The Wash is a part of a National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere.
(For more information, please visit nnpn.org)
Intended Audience Age: 10 and up
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About Play Club
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A space where we come together virtually and in person to discuss plays we have read by BIPOC playwrights. Join us every month for a new play that you will read for the month then come to discuss it with us at the end of the month and some months we even have a watch party of the play or a meet up event before we discuss it!
*When you RSVP for your ticket you will be sent a link to the play club meeting we will also send you a pdf of the play to read, so you are prepared for the discussion, if available. We may even have the playwright sit in to discuss the play with us for some meetings! We will also be recording each play club meeting for promotional purposes, however feel free to leave your cameras off for the discussion or to decline being filmed in person, if you choose.
Perceptions Theatre’s Artistic Director, Myesha-Tiara and Executive Director, Jerluane “Jae” Jenkins sat down with “The Future of Art in America: A New Models Podcast” on Spotify to chat with Olivia Lilley about how we started, our plans for the future and how you can be the best version of what you want to get out of the arts community! Trust us you don’t want to miss it. If you ever wanted to know a little about our process in being theatre owners on the Southside of Chicago this is definitely for you and check out the rest of their line up on Spotify today!
We WON the Broadway in Chicago's
Emerging Theatre Award!
We're Nominated for TWO
Black Excellence Awards & TWO Jeff Awards
We Are Named Best New Storefront Theatre in the Chicago Magazine!
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Our Covid Protocol:
We are following all Covid protocols and respect everyone's individual decisions when it comes to this. Everyone who attends our events are encouraged to wear a mask if they so choose.
