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Some of Chicago’s funniest comedians take to the stage addressing the past and future of Black America in a new Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company production, “Black Side of the Moon.” /Photo courtesy Woolly Mammoth
Posted inEntertainment

Challenges of Black America Addressed in Satiric Comedy

by D. Kevin McNeir – Senior Editor November 17, 2016October 30, 2020

When The Second City and Woolly Mammoth first collaborated in 2009 with a production of “Barack Stars,” D.C. audiences loved the result.

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