Broadway Stars BROADWAYSTARS

Congo Square celebrates its roots with the satirical Day of Absence

by Albert Williams

Douglas Turner Ward's classic one-act kicks off their 20th season. Derrick Sanders and Reginald Nelson arrived in Chicago in 1999 with a singular goal: to start a theater company that could fuse the ensemble aesthetic of a Steppenwolf with a focus on work that expressed and arose from the African Diaspora experience. The pair had met at Howard University in Washington, D.C., where they re…

SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 5:00pm on January 23, 2020