Theater is always a form of entertainment (hopefully) - but it can also educate.

Invisible Theatre's new production, "The Black Boy," seeks to do both. The one-act play, adapted by Wynn Handman from prominent black author Richard Wright's autobiography of the same name, brings to the stage an abbreviated version of the writer's childhood growing up in the segregated South.

"It's sort of the Reader's Digest version," said director Eve Himmelheber, "pieces of all of his life that have been taken from the novel directly - 20 characters, 20 years, 50 minutes."