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The month-long celebration will encourage deeper study of Poet Laureate Cleage's works.

Lee Breuer and Bob Telson's 'The Gospel at Colonus,' a reworking of Sophocles' 'Oedipus at Colonus' with gospel music, opens at the Getty Villa's Outdoor Theater in a co-production with Chicago's Court Theatre.

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.

The month-long celebration will encourage deeper study of Poet Laureate Cleage's works.

A recap of the 2023 XL Film Festival.

The project will contain a museum, two performing spaces and is earmarked as a performance home for the Congo Square Theatre Company.

Lennix grew up on Chicago’s South Side, and graduated from Northwestern University. He worked as an elementary school music teacher before his storied acting career took off. Hes appeared in numerous productions in Chicago and around the country, as well as countless movies and television shows. Along the way, Lennix met TaRon Patton, who at the time was executive director of Congo Square Theatre.  “‘Hey Harry, I want a theater for the Congo Square Theatre Company, whom I have been asso...