Featured Cast
Creative Team
Location
Lenfest Center for the Arts
615 W 129th St
New York, NY
About The Performance
Columbia University School of Arts MFA Acting Cohort of 2025 presents George C. Wolfe’s The Colored Museum directed by Nigel Semaj.
In Wolfe’s 1986 classic The Colored Museum, 11 satirical exhibits take aim at the most pernicious American stereotypes of Black culture. Through provoking throughout, at times mournful, aspirational, uncomfortable, and riotously funny, The Colored Museum asks audiences of all colors to look beyond the overworked ideas of how Blackness is represented and to create space for a bigger, broader, more full future.
As Wolfe writes in the show: “So, hunny, don’t waste your time trying to label or define me… ’cause I’m not what I was ten years ago or ten minutes ago. I’m all of that and then some. And whereas I can’t live inside yesterday’s pain, I can’t live without it.”
Produced by special arrangement with Broadway Licensing.
PLEASE NOTE: The Colored Museum is a satire that directly addresses stereotypes of the Black experience in America, and is presented by a cast composed entirely of performers of color. This play contains references to and depictions of enslavement; descriptions of physical violence, including intimate partner violence; and the use of race-based and gender-based derogatory language, including the n-word.
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Image: Production artwork for The Colored Museum