- Tickets
- Memberships & Season
- Engage & Learn
- Your Visit
- Support
- Artists
- About
- Accountability
- Ticket Donation Requests
- Financials
- Rentals at the Goodman
- Our History
- Staff & Leadership
- Join the Goodman
- Press Room
- 2023 – 2024 Season
- 2022 – 2023 Season
- 2021 – 2022 Season
- 2019 – 2020 Season
- Hershey Felder as Irving Berlin
- Goodman Gala
- A Paris Love Story
- Bernhardt Hamlet
- The Santaland Diaries
- American Mariachi
- School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play
- Molly Sweeney
- graveyard shift
- Roe
- 42nd Annual Production of A Christmas Carol
- Dana H
- Daughter of a Cuban Revolutionary
- New Stages Festival 2019
- 2018 – 2019 Season
- 2017 – 2018 Season
- 2016 – 2017 Season
- 2015 – 2016 Season
- 2014 – 2015 Season
- About the Goodman
The Nacirema Society
The Nacirema Society
By PEARL CLEAGE, Directed by LILI-Anne BROWN
September 16 – October 15 in the Albert Theatre
Opening Night is September 26, 2023
Susan Booth launches her first season as Artistic Director with a “laugh-out-loud” (BroadwayWorld.com) “hilarious comedy” (ArtsATL.com) by nationally renowned playwright, poet and New York Times best-selling author.
Every year since Emancipation, The Nacirema Society of Montgomery, Alabama introduces six elegant African American debutantes to a world of wealth, privilege and social responsibility. For these young ladies, bus boycotts and freedom marches are less interesting than making a perfect entrance—or plotting the perfect blackmail. As the Society celebrates its centennial…with young love brewing, old flames simmering and national media attention abounding…what would dare go awry? This Chicago premiere marks 25 years since playwright, poet, activist and novelist Pearl Cleage’s work has appeared on the Goodman stage (1998’s Blues for an Alabama Sky, directed by Chuck Smith).
Digital Press Kit
Access Photos, Video and more in the Digital Press Kit.
Press Releases
March 29, 2023: Announcing the 2023-2024 Season