Please share with us a night to consider the crisis for immigrants that touches our lives here in Chicago.

“SANCTUARY STORIES: A JOURNALISM THEATER PROJECT,” is a living multi-media documentary, a leap forward into storytelling based on reporting and presented through music, videos and actors presenting real lives.

The theater show does feature our work directly with a focus on Sr JoAnn Persch, Rev Beth Brown, myself and five others… The production will be presented over 6 nights in January at the Windy City Theatre. Our initial production took place at Northwestern University, where Craig Duff, who created this effort is a professor of video journalism. An exhilarating reaction led us to take it to a Chicago theatre and a wider audience.

The actors' presentations are based verbatim from my reporting.

Among those portrayed are clergy who have stepped forward to help immigrants; a veteran Immigration Court judge who resigned over a changed system; a politician driven to join demonstrators; a young immigrant who frets that the successful life she has found can be instantly swept away; and a refugee who cannot sleep nor smile because of the torture he suffered for years as he made his way to the U.S.

There will also be insights from Borderless Magazine, a nonprofit, nonpartisan newsroom reporting on and with Chicago’s immigrant communities.

A preview performance will take place once on Thursday, January 15, at 7 pm.
Subsequent performances will run at 7 pm on January 16, 17, 18, 23, and 24.
All performances are at Windy City Playhouse, 3014 W. Irving Park Rd., Chicago, IL
Tickets are an affordable $25 and can be purchased at https://sanctuarystories.ludus.com