Songs of Resilience Finally Given a Voice on Stage

Experience the creativity, hope, and spirit that survived Live in Chicago Nov. 6.

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About the Concert

Following its sold-out Carnegie Hall debut in January, “We Are Here” comes to Chicago in recognition of the 85th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the 1938 assault on thousands of Jewish businesses, synagogues, and homes. This one-night-only concert features songs that were written in the ghettos and concentration camps of Nazi-occupied Europe, interspersed with true stories about the writers’ lives. A “NY1 Theater Pick” that Broadway World called “incredible” and “powerful”, “We Are Here” pays tribute to the artists murdered during the Shoah who, in the worst of times, continued to create.

Meet Our Performers and Presenters

Ryne Sandberg

Hall of Fame Baseball Player for the Chicago Cubs

Charles Tillman

Football Player for the Chicago Bears

Tom Higgenson

Plain White T’s

Adam Jacobs

Aladdin in Broadway’s Aladdin

Congressman Mike Quigley

United States Representative

LeeAnn Trotter

Feature Reporter, NBC5

Roz Varon

Traffic/Transportation Anchor ABC 7 News

Justin Jesso

Singer and Songwriter

Zachary Noah Piser

Evan Hansen in Dear Evan Hansen

Raven Schwam-Curtis

Digital Educator and Keynote Speaker

Donald Lawrence

Grammy-award winning Gospel singer

Jake Lockett

NBC’s Chicago Fire

Brenda Russell

Grammy-award winning songwriter of The Color Purple

Tim Hopper

Steppenwolf Theatre Company member

Bob Sirott

WGN

Lourdes Duarte

Anchor, WGN-TV

Bill Kurtis

Famed Anchorman

Richard Roeper

Film Critic, Chicago Sun-Times

Pastor Chris Harris

Senior Pastor

Lisa Fielding

Anchor/Reporter, WBBM Newsradio 780

Natalie Bomke

Anchor, Fox 32 Chicago's "First at Four"

Brad Edwards

Anchor & Storyteller at CBS News Chicago

Rick Krosnick

Jewish National Fund-USA

Rabbi Deborah Sacks Mintz

Hadar’s Rising Song Institute

Paris Schutz

Host of WTTW Chicago Tonight

Andrew Lippa

Tony-Award nominee for Best Original Score

Becca Suskauer

Pretty Woman National Tour

Steven Skybell

Tevye in Yiddish Fiddler on the Roof

Cantor Danny Mendelson

Congregation Kol Ami

Cantor Rachel Brook

Anshe Emet Synagogue

Fareed Haque

Guitar virtuoso

Howard Levy

Grammy-award winning harmonica artist

Nicholas Tremulis

Singer/Musician/Artist

Susie McCollum

Singer/songwriter

Cheryl Wilson

International recording artist

Tom Regouski

Multi-instrumentalist

Maddie Burton

Producer/Performer

Omi Lichtenstein

Lyric Opera’s Fiddler on the Roof

Rabbi Charles E. Savenor

Civic Spirit

Yinam Cohen

Consul General of Israel to the Midwest

Rabbi Shoshanah Conover

Temple Sholom

Rabbi Lizzi Heydemann

Mishkan Chicago

Bret Werb

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Rabbi Michael S. Siegel

Anshe Emet Synagogue

Michael Simon

Northwestern University Hillel

Kelley Szany

Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center

Rabbi Steven Stark Lowenstein

Rabbi of Am Shalom

Michael Ahrens

German Consul General in Chicago

Avy and Marcie Stein

Cresset Capitol

"For a moment in time at Carnegie Hall, 'We Are Here' brought us all together with contagious enthusiasm and passion to embrace our time"

— Roberta Greenberg, audience member