AUGUST 15, 2012: TICKETS ON SALE FOR WE
ARE THEATRE
at the CHERRY LANE THEATRE NEW YORK
CITY
Guerrilla Girls on Tour!, along with 50/50 in 2020
and the Women’s Initiative members of the Dramatists Guild, is presenting a
speak-out on the evening of September 24th at the Cherry Lane
Theater, located in New York City’s Greenwich Village and entitled WE ARE THEATRE.
WE ARE THEATRE intends to drive home
the blatant lack of parity for women
playwrights (less than 20% of all plays
produced in the U.S. are written by women) by presenting a series of
specially commissioned monologues, skits, songs, and scenes about sexism in the
theatre. These short works have been written by just a handful of the
thousands of women theatre artists who continue to persevere in the tradition
of creating superior, innovative American theatre.
Works by Theresa Rebeck, Brooke
Berman, Kate Bornstein, Thelma Virata de Castro, and Shay Youngblood
will be among the 24 writers whose work will receive staged readings at WE ARE THEATRE. WE ARE THEATRE is
supported by Gloria Steinem and co-sponsored by the Women’s Project and
Productions, Hollaback!, Hedgebrook and LA Female Playwrights Initiative to name a
few of the national organizations involved.
WE ARE THEATRE begins at 7PM. Tickets are available at the Cherry Lane box office as of August 15th, and are priced at $20 for general admission and $12 for seniors and students. For tickets:
https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/916365
For more info visit http://www.facebook.com/WeAreTheatre.
@OccupyBroadway
