Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alums are in the cast and creative team of Pearl Cleage‘s play The Nacirema Society Requests the Honor of Your Presence at a Celebration of Their First One Hundred Years, running through October 22 at the Goodman Theatre, located at 170 N. Dearborn in Chicago’s downtown Loop theatre district. Student discounts are available. For tickets and more information, click here.

The show’s cast features Columbia College alum Tyla Abercrumbie ’98, an award-winning actor and playwright whose drama Relentless played at the Goodman last year.

And Columbia College alum Sheryl Williams ’20, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Musical Theatre with a Minor in Stage Combat, is one of the show’s intimacy directors.

Pearl Cleage’s comedy, receiving its Chicago premiere, is set in 1964 Montgomery, Alabama, where the Nacirema Society, an elite social club for wealthy African-American women, prepares for its annual introduction of six elegant debutantes to a world of prosperity, privilege, and social responsibility. The production is part of a city-wide festival of Cleage’s work taking place in Chicago this fall.