Before We Are History
Open Space Arts
1411 W. Wilson Ave Chicago
1411 W. Wilson Ave Chicago
The project brings together plays that captured the lives, relationships, sexuality, fear, humor, friendship and resilience of gay men as AIDS transformed their communities, alongside work by artists whose lives and writing continue to carry the history of the epidemic into the present. It grew from a desire to revisit theatrical works that were once urgently connected to LGBTQ+ audiences but are now seldom produced.
Oct 23 - Oct 25, 2026