There were a few weeks left to see the multi-talented Sharriese Hamilton in the moving Chicago Children’s Theatre production of Cheryl L. West’s “The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963” when we had a conversation following a student performance on April 23rd. Hamilton plays the mother of a fun-loving family dealing with an upstart older son and the road trip from their home in Flint, Michigan to her mother’s home in Birmingham, Alabama to help turn things around. The imaginative story plays out through the observations of the Watson’s younger son as he discovers how discrimination and racism impacts his family’s life through events that occur on the trip and in Birmingham.  It’s entertaining and enlightening children’s theater—a real conversation starter—dealing, as Hamilton says, “with real issues and real people.”