sisterhood are being celebrated in the Tony Award-winning Broadway play.

Judge Jazz, African hair braiding, the production's regional debut made its way to the Chicago Shakespeare Theater to rave reviews, taking place within the span of one day.

The play follows the lives of 5 hairstylists and judge as teenage daughter and shows the struggles of being West African immigrant women in New York City.

>> to be medio.

I was thinking Mike Rose actually what always felt with the play was that when people are coming in, they're going to experience a day in the life.

>> In the shop.

>> We were never going to leave the shop.

We're never going to, you know, go to another place or another location.

It was going to, you know, be a day 09:00AM shop opens and this is what everyone believe that they would be and 12 hours later at 09:00PM when the shop closes, everyone's life has been changed.

Those kinds community spaces that are also a space where people are providing service.

>> Are kind of like right with storytelling because there's just so many different people and and ways in which they all ended up in at the shop at the restaurant at the nail They're important because a community space is also inherently a safe space.

And in those spaces, there's also incredible amount of joy and humor.

It's also how we have survived all of years and how we're going to continue to survive.

Humor is actually a part of our DNA of survivor and >> I think that's why.

>> Both of those things still synonymous from the play and it's like.

>> And hair braiding shop and, you know, community whatever.

But it's all so funny because that is how we deal and handle