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    Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre

    1650 North Halsted Street (One block north of North Ave.), Chicago, IL
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    Pb Listing Placeholder THEATRE V4
    Opened in 1991. 515 seats
    • Longest Running Show: Good Night, And Good Luck
    Currently Playing
    Pb Listing Placeholder REGIONAL V4
    Choir Boy
    Regional Play with Music
    SYNOPSIS:

    Pharus Young is now a senior at the Charles R. Drew Prep School for Boys, an institution committed to building “strong, ethical black men,” where he endeavors to be the best leader of the school’s prestigious choir in its 50-year history. But in a world built on rites and rituals, should he conform to the expectations of his peers in order to gain the respect he desperately seeks?

    Written by Oscar-winner Tarell Alvin McCraney (Moonlight), this Tony-nominated play—threaded throughout with soul-stirring a cappella gospel hymns—is the story of a young gay black man and his battle between identity and community. Choir Boy is an elegy to quiet rebellion, filled with the sound of longing and aspiration. It is a love song in pianissimo to the unseen heart that beats inside us all.
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