Penumbra Theatre creates professional productions that are artistically excellent, thought provoking, relevant, and illuminate the human condition through the prism of the African American experience.

Penumbra’s goals are:

• To increase public awareness of the significant contributions of African Americans in creating a diversified American theatrical tradition.
• To encourage and facilitate a culturally diverse and all-inclusive America by using theatre to teach, criticize, comment and model.
• To use theatre to create an American mythology that includes African Americans and other peoples of color in every thread of the fabric of our society.
• To continue to maintain and stabilize a black performing arts community.