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The Evanston company celebrates 46 years of producing classic and contemporary plays from the African and African American diaspora.

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Deen's dystopic comedy set at a predominantly white university overflows with sharp observations at Definition.

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She Who Dared centers the women behind the Montgomery bus boycott and the landmark case of Browder v. Gayle.