The Runaways Lab Theater

Women of Color Productions present the Runaways’ newest lab: Black Lab²!

Black Lab² is the experimentation of a scientist’s scientist. Music and Theatre will merge in a new and unique way as artists work across disciplines and explore Black Art in the heat of its contemporary Renaissance.

**One night only**

Zhou B Art Center
4th Floor at Women of Color Productions’ Performance Space
1029 West 35th Street
Chicago, IL 60609

The plays:

Issa Was Here
Written by Makeda M. Declet// Directed by Jacqueline Wade// Featuring kendra renee. and Chris Berry

The Nag
Written by Louis Johnson// directed by Jo JB Schaffer// featuring Marcellus Burt, Rahim Salaam and Tamar Brooks

Sounds by DJ “Working Title”

Original music by
Rahim Salaam, joJB and Chris Berry

$5 Suggested Donation!

More info/tix at link in bio!

To all the audience members that experienced THE SARCOMA CYCLE, whether it was NANOBLADE 1998, SPRING BREAK 2020 or THE MOURNING LIGHT 2050, thank you. You all deserve an olympic medal! If there was a sport in bringing your full selves to a play you get gold. The actors and crew also get gold. Everyone gets gold for making it such a special experience. Photographer Scott Teresi definitely gets gold. These amazing photos! He captured something ineffable about the plays. 🤯 Thank you 🙏

Today marks the start of THE SARCOMA CYCLE — the first repertory production in Chicago in over a decade (3 plays all at once 🫨) and we are so excited to welcome everyone into the cycle! FYI a lot of people want to come to the marathon performances (6.29 and 7.13) which is amazing but be advised they WILL sell out so we definitely encourage you to come to one of the weekday performances. See you in the cycle! Photos: Dan Mozurkewich and Gwen Hilton