Contrary to popular belief, all the world is not a stage—sometimes people just say things to get attention. See an actual stage with this deal to see The Colored Museum, presented by Theatre VCU at the Raymond Hodges Theatre. For $25, you get two general-admission tickets (up to a $50 value). Choose from the following performances:

• Friday, February 15, at 7:30 p.m.
• Saturday, February 16, at 7:30 p.m.
• Sunday, February 17, at 3 p.m.
• Thursday, February 21, at 7:30 p.m.
• Friday, February 22, at 7:30 p.m.
• Saturday, February 23, at 7:30 p.m.
• Sunday, February 24, at 3 p.m.<p>

Doors open 30 minutes before the performance.

One of the first major works by Tony-winning playwright George C. Wolfe, The Colored Museum deconstructs the racism of modern society with a sense of humor as sharp as a scalpel and as blunt as a strongman’s hammer. The brutal satire is presented as a series of surreal, yet familiar vignettes, or “exhibits,” chronicling the cultural misconceptions and realities of the African-American experience. In “Exhibit One: Git on Board,” a stewardess reels through her preflight spiel on the luxury slave ship Celebrity, warning her charges to fasten their shackles before takeoff. “Exhibit Two: Cookin’ with Aunt Ethel” sees a blues-singing bayou queen host a cooking show about turning sadness and rage into beautiful art. Later, in “The Last Mama-on-the-Couch Play,” Wolfe turns his razor pen on some of the more sentimental excesses of African-American theater itself. None are safe in this audacious, incisive, and sometimes uncomfortable play, presented by Theatre VCU in celebration of Black History Month.