Lookingglass delivers a stunning world premiere about Chicago's first woman mayor, public housing, and race."This ain't Walter Lee Younger's Chicago no more," declares Black Che (Robert Cornelius), a sort of griot of the housing projects in J. Nicole Brooks's Her Honor Jane Byrne, now receiving a rich, riotous, and soul-searching world premiere at Lookingglass Theatre. The play focuses specifically on the three weeks in 1981 when Jane Byrne—the first woman elected mayor of a major city in the U.S.—moved to an apartment in Cabrini-Green to highlight the poor living conditions in the projects.…
Lookingglass delivers a stunning world premiere about Chicago's first woman mayor, public housing, and race."This ain't Walter Lee Younger's Chicago no more," declares Black Che (Robert Cornelius), a sort of griot of the housing projects in J. Nicole Brooks's Her Honor Jane Byrne, now receiving a rich, riotous, and soul-searching world premiere at Lookingglass Theatre. The play focuses specifically on the three weeks in 1981 when Jane Byrne—the first woman elected mayor of a major city in the U.S.—moved to an apartment in Cabrini-Green to highlight the poor living conditions in the projects.…