Our Lan' - Court Theatre

Join us for a staged reading of Our Lan‘ – a notable play at the time it was written in 1947, that successfully ran on Broadway – focusing on the Reconstruction South and the broken promises made to newly freed slaves at the conclusion of the Civil War. A post-show discussion with this year’s Spotlight director, Charles Andrew Gardner, will follow.

August 15, 2025 | Penthouse, The Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts (915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637) | 6:30pm Doors | 7:00pm Reading

Header image: “A newly freed African American group of men and a few children posing by a canal against the ruins of Richmond, Virginia, 1865.”

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