FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MAY 28, 2026
Join us on June 13, 2026 at 2pm at Victor Shargai Theatre at Studio Theatre for matinee and Talk Back with NBCI Trust Executive Director, Jessica Ann Mitchell Aiwuyor
The National Black Cultural Information Trust, Inc. is proud to join Studio Theatre as a Community Partner supporting the stage production of Purlie Victorious, written by Ossie Davis and Directed by Psalmayene 24. Join us on June 13, 2026 at 2pm for a matinee showing, followed by for our Community Partner “Talk Back” with Associate Artistic Director, Jess Hayes, Jessica Ann Mitchell Aiwuyor, Executive Director of National Black Cultural Information Trust, Inc., and Nkechi Taifa, Esq. Executive Director of the Reparation Education Project.
Plot: Purlie is home on a mission—to buy back his father’s church and liberate the sharecroppers he grew up with from the brutal segregationist who still runs their plantation. Purlie Victorious features a madcap plot, survival techniques forged in the Jim Crow South, and satiric targets that feel as urgent as they did when the play premiered in 1961—its 2023 Broadway revival was nominated for six Tony awards. Psalmayene 24 (The Colored Museum) will direct this timely and lacerating comedy.
Get Tickets: May 6 – June 21, 2026
Victor Shargai Theatre at Studio Theatre
1501 14th Street NW, Washington, DC 20005
Link: https://www.studiotheatre.org/plays/play-detail/2025-2026/purlie-victorious
Runtime: 100 minutes with no intermission