Gangsta Baby at Open Space Arts
Dates: 9/19/2025 - 10/19/2025
📍 Theatre: Open Space Arts
1411 W. Wilson Ave.
Chicago, IL 60640
Tickets: $30.00
Junior is a queer sex worker in Hastings suffering from PTSD. His life is plunged into further turmoil during a booking with a new client when his homophobic gangster father “Senior” returns home. Why has his father returned? What does he want from his son? And why now? From writer and performer Cameron Raasdal-Munro, and director Rikki Beadle-Blair MBE, GANGSTA BABY explores themes of class, environmental issues, and how being shunned by a parent for being LGBTQIA+ can develop into internalized homophobia.
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