By George C. Wolfe
Music by Kysia Bostic
Directed by Nigel Semaj

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.

Showtimes

Thursday, November 14 @ 8 PM
Friday, November 15 @ 8 PM
Saturday, November 16 @ 2 PM
Saturday, November 16 @ 8 PM
Sunday, November 17 @ 2 PM