Chicago Event - An Evening at the Pekin Theatre

[phono-smitten]

Short notice, but just stumbled upon this interesting looking event in Chicago. Show is free on Saturday 6/17 at 7 PM.

"Bronzeville’s Pekin Theatre, often called the “Temple of Music,” was the first Black-owned and -operated stock theatre company in the United States. The Pekin opened the first all-Black show ever produced in Chicago on June 18th, 1905 to an estimated crowd of 400 patrons. Join us just one day shy of 112 years later as we reanimate history at the corner of 27th and S. State Street with an evening of ragtime-era performances by MacArthur-winning pianist Reginald Robinson and some of Chicago’s other most talented artists and musicians."

https://www.ilhumanities.org/events/an- ... n-theatre/

https://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/a ... music-hall