“The Most Spectacularly Lamentable Trial of Miz Martha Washington”

Bedridden and recently widowed, the ailing Martha Washington is attended to by a team of enslaved people—all of whom will be set free as soon as she's dead—in this genre-bending play by the Pulitzer-winning playwright James Ijames. The Chicago premiere production at Steppenwolf's Downstairs Theater stars Steppenwolf ensemble member Celeste M. Cooper alongside Sydney Charles, Carl Clemons-Hopkins, Nikki Crawford, Cindy Gold, Victor Musoni and Donovan Session.