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Important Dates

– July 28 – Return Marketing PR/Partner Form
– August 14 – All reservations set up
– Week of August 28- Cleage Fest announcement/onsale date

Festival Landing Page (NOTE: this will not be set up until we receive all partner forms): GoodmanTheatre.org/Pearl

SHORT DESCRIPTION: 
Celebrate playwright/poet Pearl Cleage in a citywide festival with American Writers Museum, Black Ensemble Theater, Congo Square Theatre, Definition Theatre, eta Creative Arts Foundation, MPAACT, Remy Bumppo Theatre Company and more..  

MEDIUM DESCRIPTION: 

Celebrate distinguished playwright/poet Pearl Cleage in a first-ever citywide festival, featuring the centerpiece production of Ms. Cleage’s The Nacirema Society at Goodman Theatre, plus events with creative partners across Chicago—including American Writers Museum, Black Ensemble Theater, Congo Square Theatre, Definition Theatre, eta Creative Arts Foundation, MPAACT, Remy Bumppo Theatre Company and more. 

LONG DESCRIPTION: 

With honors from the New York Times (Best Seller) to the NAACP (Image Award) to Oprah’s Book Club, distinguished playwright/poet Pearl Cleage brings to vivid life the joys and sorrows of Black womanhood in 20th century America. Now, Chicago celebrates the depth and breadth of Atlanta’s Poet Laureate with a first-ever citywide festival, featuring the centerpiece production The Nacirema Society, directed by Lili-Anne Brown at Goodman Theatre, plus concurrent readings, workshops and special events with creative partners including American Writers Museum, Black Ensemble Theater, Congo Square Theatre, Definition Theatre, eta Creative Arts Foundation, MPAACT, Remy Bumppo Theatre Company and more. Conceived by new Goodman Artistic Director Susan V. Booth—a longtime collaborator of Ms. Cleage—and curated by BOLD Artistic Producer Malkia Stampley, the four-week festival kicks off the fall theater season in Chicago.