The Colored Museum at The Umbrella Arts Center

The Colored Museum has electrified, discomforted, and delighted audiences of all colors, redefining our ideas of what it means to be Black in contemporary America.

Running May 20-June 5, 2021, the production is directed in a fresh, relevant new way for The Umbrella Stage Company by versatile director, dramaturge, educator, writer and collaborator Pascale Florestal, recently spotlighted in WBUR's "2021 Artery 25: Artists Of Color Transforming The Cultural Landscape".

The powerful satire centers on a kind of character museum featuring eleven exhibits represented in vignettes that undermine Black stereotypes old and new, explore inter-community conflicts, and ultimately return to the facts of what being Black means.

Alternately stinging and hysterically funny, the show was created by award-winning playwright George C. Wolfe, praised by The New York Times as "the kind of satirist, almost unheard of in today's timid theater, who takes no prisoners," and who "says the unthinkable, says it with uncompromising wit."

In addition to theater talkbacks, the show experience will intersect with other programs at The Umbrella, including the "Past/Present/Future Gallery" exhibition, a mixed media group show featuring work by contemporary Black artists curated by Cedric Vise1 Douglas; an African-American History Walking Tour of Concord; partner activities with The Robbins House; and other community events.

Performances run Fridays & Saturdays 8PM; Sundays 3PM. Discounts for students, seniors, military families, groups, Card-to-Culture eligible attendees. The Umbrella is wheelchair accessible. Large Print playbills and Assistive Listening Devices are available by advance request.

For details, see http://TheUmbrellaArts.org/TCMB

Authors

• George C. Wolfe
• Kysia Bostic