The School of Memory
Theatre Y
3611 W Cermak Rd Chicago
3611 W Cermak Rd Chicago
For Alvarez, interrogating his family’s past onstage is a way of thinking about the United States’ future — a way to speak to American audiences who may know authoritarianism as an abstraction but have rarely encountered it as a lived experience: how it enters homes, divides communities, and corrupts memory. In a political moment when these questions feel newly urgent, The School of Memory offers not just a history lesson but a provocation: one family’s past as a mirror for America's present.
Thru - Jul 19, 2026