Before it was “227,” a hit NBC sitcom, ‘Two Twenty Seven’ was a play about Bronzeville in the 1950s

Chicago Sun-Times: Christine Houston wrote her play “Two Twenty Seven” while proving a point to her sons. She had started attending college at age 42 because she wanted to show them that getting an education was important. That’s how Houston, now 86, ended up at Kennedy-King College and writing the play that would become the NBC sitcom “227” in 1985.