The Colored Museum is a play written by George C. Wolfe that premiered at Crossroads Theatre in 1986, directed by L. Kenneth Richardson.
[1] In a series of 11 “exhibits” (sketches), the revue explores and satirizes prominent themes and identities of African-American culture.
[2] Credits from the Lortel Archives[12] The stage was designed to resemble a white-walled gallery where “the myths and madness of black/Negro/colored Americans are stored.”[13] The walls contained a series of doors, small panels and revolving walls and compartments which allowed actors to retrieve key props and quickly transition from one exhibit to another.
However, live drummer Ron McBee was used in the Git on Board, Permutations and The Party “exhibits.”[13] The Colored Museum premiered at Crossroads Theatre of New Jersey in 1986.
"- Harry J. Elam, The Johns Hopkins University Press Theatre Journal[17] Theater scholar Jordan Schildcrout discusses "The Gospel According to Miss Roj" in terms of Afrofuturism and queer fantasies of empowerment, noting that "the very title of segment invokes the rhetoric of religious testament and proclaims Miss Roj as a prophet, one who has extraordinary—perhaps even supernatural—powers of insight and wisdom.