The Victory Gardens Theater presents, Wheatley, by Lonnie Carter.

The real life, storybook adventures of Phillis Wheatley, a revolutionary American slave girl, whose poetic genius lifted her from New England parlor trick into the great salons of Europe and beyond. Follow her travels with the Countess Selena, Ben Franklin and the Admiralty from Boston to London and back, to find love in the arms of Samson Osee Power Frock -- free man of color. Join us for this colorful, uplifting, lightning quick, music-filled evening of theater