Review: THE GREEN BOOK at Pegasus Theatre Chicago, in association with ShPIeL Performing Identity

Review: THE GREEN BOOK at Pegasus Theatre Chicago, in association with ShPIeL Performing Identity

During the height of segregation, a Harlem postal worker by the name of Victor Hugo Green created a booklet called the Negro Motorist Green Book. The Green Book was designed to help traveling Black people find doctors, entertainment, restaurants, and homes for lodging in an effort to avoid areas where they were not welcomed.

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Pegasus Theatre and ShPIel Performing to Produce THE GREEN BOOK

Pegasus Theatre and ShPIel Performing to Produce THE GREEN BOOK

Pegasus Theatre Chicago, in association with ShPIeL Performing Identity, has announced the Chicago premiere of THE GREEN BOOK by Calvin A. Ramsey, inspired by Victor Green’s historical, “The Negro Motorist Green Book”

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It’s About More Than Just Laughs in A JEWISH JOKE

It’s About More Than Just Laughs in A JEWISH JOKE

In ShPiel Performing Identity’s production of A JEWISH JOKE, Hollywood screenwriter Bernie Lutz has a few jokes up his sleeve. In fact, he has an entire green plastic box full of jokes carefully written out on index cards.

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