2009 Shows

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 Today critically acclaimed and nationally produced playwright Lydia R. Diamond is known for The Bluest Eye, Stick Fly, Voyeurs de Venus, and the recent Harriet Jacobs. Back in 1998, MPAACT had the honor of producing her play The Inside.

In Stage Black a well-respected but under-produced African-American playwright, attempts to write the "perfect producible black play". As the writer attempts to script the black play that falls within the comfort zones of white and black audiences, her subconscious leaps to the fore and her characters rebel. The rest... well, you'll just have to see it to believe it.

Written by Lydia R. Diamond

Directed by Mignon McPherson Nance

Performances

Thursdays & Fridays @ 8:30pm
Saturdays @ 7:30pm
Sundays @  3:30pm

The Greenhouse Theatre - 2257 N. Lincoln Avenue, Chicago, IL

Shirley Carney's stories reflect the subtle complexities and contradictions of American life as seen through the eyes of a black woman negotiating our world for the past six decades. Hers is a unique voice which translates beautifully to the stage, bringing with it a maturity and insight "to the business of living" rarely seen on the American stage.

Adapted by award-winning writer and MPAACT Artistic Associate Shepsu Aakhu, Radical Hearsay continues the tradition started with Relevant Hearsay... stories from 57. Drawn from the stories of a woman born in rural Mississippi during the rise of the Civil Rights era, transplanted to Chicago during the civil unrest of the mid-sixties, raising her family during the "affirmative action" seventies and the "me generation" eighties, Radical Hearsay is not so much a staging as it is a sharing of that which should be spoken, and that which needs to be heard.

Written by Shirley Carney

Adapted by Shepsu Aakhu

Directed by Kimberly Crutcher

Performances

Thursdays & Fridays @ 8:30

Saturdays @  7:30

Sundays @ 3:30

Greenhouse Theatre, 2257 N. Lincoln Avenue, Chicago

Box Office: 773/404-7336

Written by: Kevin Douglas, Inda Craig-Galvan and Carla Stillwell
Directed by: Kevin Douglas and Jonathan Keaton

Pulling from MPAACT's hit productions, Blaxploitation the Remix and Blax 2, You know how we Deux, THE BEST OF BLAX...is a collection of original sketch performances that are unabashedly courageous and provocative in their take on race, class, and American politics.

@ The Playground - 3209 N. Halsted

10pm Saturdays
August 22, 29, September 5, 12 

Tickets only  $10 - B.Y.O.B

Written by: Shepsu Aakhu

Directed by: Mignon McPherson Nance

On the heels of the government’s apology to African-Americans for slavery, the Reparations Movement was born. The movement was successful, checks were written to the descendants of slaves and the seeds for a new America were sown.
 
Ten Square is one of the cities that emerged in "New America" and the life of the African-American community has been forever altered. We watch Roosevelt, a soldier duty bound to protect the new world order and a resident  of Ten Square, negotiate his obligations to his lover, his family and his government.

Ten Square is what America could be, and much of what America has become.

Featured in video: Leonard House & Nambi E. Kelley

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Featuring:

Daryl Charisse, Brittany Davis, Earl Fox, Leonard House, Eddie Jordan III, Nambi E. Kelley, Carla Stillwell, Austin Talley, Andre Teamer, Sati Word

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