A Black woman in a red striped suit is jumping up off the floor at left. A Black man in suspenders and trousers sits at a sewing machine right, pointing a finger in her direction.

I don’t know who came up with the idea of a Pearl Cleage festival for Chicago theater, but based on Mikael Burke’s gorgeous production of the Atlanta poet laureate’s 1995 drama, Blues for an Alabama Sky, I’m glad they did. (Goodman Theatre’s staging of Cleage’s comedy The Nacirema Society is in previews now.) Blues for […]

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