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  • 24 Jul 2017 7:30 PM | Paula Kamen

    Play by Paula Kamen, directed by Iris Sowlat followed by "Never Go Back" panel

    For more info, see paulakamen.com

    This event is co-sponsored by the Chicago Area Women's History Council and Shout Your Abortion 773.


    Play reading at 7:30pm. At 9 PM, panel, "Never Go Back (to When America Wasn't So Great Again)," featuring Jane member Jeanne Galatzer-Levy, pro-choice political expert Aileen Kim, playwright Paula Kamen, and moderated by Alicia Swiz. Reception to follow by the Chicago Area Women's History Center.

    Featuring actors: Amber Ray Snyder, Anna Wolfe, Chloe Bluml, Caitlin McManus, Kaitlin Stewart, Shannon Webber, Whitney Pipes, Erin Caswell, Lyla Whedbee, and Zach Hebert

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    THE PLAY: In the current debate about abortion rights, we often forget how dangerous life was for women when abortion was illegal. But in Chicago at that time 45 years ago, women Chicago knew whom to call for help: Jane, the legendary feminist abortion service, also known as "the best-kept secret in Chicago."

    From 1969 to 1972, women who ran “Jane” were mostly unassuming: college students, “hippie housewives,” and antiwar activists. But they led extraordinary double lives, running the most active underground abortion service in modern history, the one safe alternative for about 11,000 women from all backgrounds.

    This play, based on original interviews with women who ran and used this service -- and men who supported it -- tells their story.

    In the panel afterward, we will discuss how to never go back to those perilous days, when America, for women, really wasn't so great. We will focus on a very timely Illinois bill with that goal: House Bill 40, which will likely go to the governor for approval at the end of July. That bill would guarantee that Illinois, an enduring safe haven for choice for the entire Midwest region, uphold abortion rights if Roe v Wade is repealed.

    The director, Iris Sowlat, is a proud company member at Pride Films & Plays. She is a Chicago-based director whose work focuses primarily on feminism, queerness, and (dis)ability. She is also an Artistic Associate at Stage Left Theatre. Iris has directed and/or assistant-directed for Pride Films & Plays, Stage Left Theatre, Broken Nose Theatre, 20% Theatre, The Chicago Fringe Festival, Fury Theatre, and Talif Productions. This summer, Iris is producing and curating SheFest at Pride Films & Plays, and writing and directing Narratives of Achromatopsia for the Chicago Fringe Festival, and will direct the short play Barbarism for Collaboraction's Peacebook festival.

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    LOCATION details: Play and panel at the Broadway theater of the Pride Arts Center, at 4139 N. Broadway. (Not their other nearby theater, the Buena, which has a different address). Suggested payment is $10, with half of proceeds going to Chicago Abortion Fund, and half to the Pride Center. Parking is very tough, even maddening, in that area, so we recommend public transportation.

  • 22 Jul 2017 11:06 AM | Catherine Frid

    Catherine Frid's 10-minute play The Mess will be presented as part of the NewMarket National Play Festival, July 22 - 23, 2017.

    The Mess is a 10-minute play for two female actors that explores memory and forgetting, and the importance of reaching out across generations to transcend barriers and secrets. 

  • 22 Jul 2017 2:00 AM | Carolyn Gage


    July 22-23

    Joanne Lavelle performs and produces Lace Curtain Irish at the Buxton Fringe Festival in the UK.  Check website for venue and times.

  • 20 Jul 2017 7:30 PM | Margo MacDonald

    Straight off the highly acclaimed UK & Ireland tour, this multi-award winning play about the all-female gang which terrorized London, England in the 1920s appears at The Staircase theatre as part of the Hamilton Fringe Festival this month.

    The Elephant Girls
    written & performed by Margo MacDonald

    July 20th-30th
    Hamilton Fringe Festival
    The Staircase, 25 Dundurn St. N., Hamilton, ON, Canada
    Tickets & Info http://hamiltonfringe.ca/shows/the-elephant-girls/



  • 14 Jul 2017 11:17 AM | Carolyn Gage

    July 14-16

    Soul Rebel Performance Troupe presents Harriet Tubman Visits a Therapist at the First Congregational Church in Albany, NY.

  • 06 Jul 2017 11:14 AM | Carolyn Gage

    July 8 concert/reading of Babe! An Olympian Musical

    Book/lyrics: Carolyn Gage

    Music: Andrea Jill Higgins

    At the National Women's Music Festival, Middleton, WI

  • 03 Jul 2017 10:43 PM | Sarah Bewley

    Everything you Need Saturday, August 26, 3 pm This 90-minute play by Gainesville-based playwright Sarah Bewley explores free will and fate in a small shop where you can find everything you need. This play includes some profanities.

  • 30 Jun 2017 9:30 PM | Deleted user
     JUNE 30 
    AT FEINSTEINS/54 BELOW 
    254 W 54th St, NEW YORK CITY


    AMY OESTREICHER IN "GUTLESS AND GRATEFUL"


    Amy Oestreicher will make her Feinstein’s/54 Below debut Friday June 30, 9:30 pm, doors open 8:45 pm - in New York City, performing her one-woman musical show GUTLESS AND GRATEFUL about her personal journey from a near death experience to the hope filled journey that has been a new chapter in her life; and how it is possible to meet the challenges of mental and health obstacles - performing it through song and story. Amy has been a TEDX Talk presenter, featured in Huffington Post, Seventeen and more. SEE https://54below.com/events/amy-oestreicher-gutless-grateful/

    The first week in May is an exclusive discounted price and exclusive subscribers can take advantage of it. Using the code AMYO35 you can get 35% off Main Dining Room or Bar Rail. It launches at 12:01am on the 1st and ends 11:59pm on the 7th OR once 20 tickets are sold using the code - Go to
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    https://amyoes.com/2017/04/26/gutless-sale/




  • 30 Jun 2017 9:30 PM | Deleted user
     JUNE 30 
    AT FEINSTEINS/54 BELOW 
    254 W 54th St, NEW YORK CITY


    AMY OESTREICHER IN "GUTLESS AND GRATEFUL"


    Amy Oestreicher will make her Feinstein’s/54 Below debut Friday June 30, 9:30 pm, doors open 8:45 pm - in New York City, performing her one-woman musical show GUTLESS AND GRATEFUL about her personal journey from a near death experience to the hope filled journey that has been a new chapter in her life; and how it is possible to meet the challenges of mental and health obstacles - performing it through song and story. Amy has been a TEDX Talk presenter, featured in Huffington Post, Seventeen and more. SEE https://54below.com/events/amy-oestreicher-gutless-grateful/

    The first week in May is an exclusive discounted price and exclusive subscribers can take advantage of it. Using the code AMYO35 you can get 35% off Main Dining Room or Bar Rail. It launches at 12:01am on the 1st and ends 11:59pm on the 7th OR once 20 tickets are sold using the code - Go to
    ​ 
    https://amyoes.com/2017/04/26/gutless-sale/




  • 30 Jun 2017 9:30 PM | Deleted user

    “Gutless & Grateful is not a story about a victim, but one of a survivor. Amy has channeled the pain of her experiences into something far greater.” – Michelle Alerte (Woman Around Town)
    Buy tickets here. Use discount code AMY35!
    Lost a Stomach, Gained a Story. ("My stomach exploded, but see my TEDx Talk for more on that…")

    • On NBC’s Today Show, HuffPost, TEDx, Winner of 7 National Awards, and toured to 150+ venues since it’s the BroadwayWorld Best Theatre Debut-nomination in 2012.
    • Now touring as a sexual assault and mental health program, and is also listed in the official directory for the National Arts & Health in the Military Initiative. 
    • Discount is only available if you make reservations online…so do that! (AMY35)

    Following sold-out runs at The Triad NYC, The Bijou, United Solo Fest, Barrington Stage Company (Tony-Award winning William Finn’s Cabaret Series) and a nationwide tour from Washington D.C. to Hawaii, global speaker/survivor Amy Oestreicher will bring her hit one-woman musical Gutless & Grateful back to NYC at the famed Feinstein’s/54 Below  on June 30th, 2017, 9:30pm.  Through interwoven song and dialogue, Oestreicher shares a primal piece of live-storytelling, weaving near death experience and inspiring perspective with an eclectic set of songs, comedically highlighting struggles, triumphs and “beautiful detours” in her life.
    “One part moving testament to human indomitability, the other a thoroughly satisfying evening of song. While each element is strong enough to stand on its own, combined they illuminate and enhance each other. Rarely have I seen narration and song so artfully meshed, and Oestreicher’s likeability, good humor, interpretive skill, and manifest commitment to what she is saying and singing make us not only understand her story, but also feel it on a very deep level.” -Roy Sander (critic for BistroAwards.com)
    Nominated for “Best Theatre Debut” in 2012 (Broadway World), and Bistro Awards Top Pick, and featured in Huffington Post, Gutless & Grateful, takes audiences on a musical journey of determination, grit and “guts” as Oestreicher shares her humor, her strength, and her soaring vocals with the world. Oestreicher’s script was inspired by the thousands of  journal entries she kept over the six years she endured unable to eat a morsel of food or drink a drop of liquid.  Co-conceived by Oestreicher and musical director David Brunetti, the show is directed by Broadway-veteran Jerold Goldstein, also on piano.  “Gutless” also features the song “Still Alive” which was written for Amy by acclaimed composer David Friedman with lyrics by TV personality and lyricist Kathie Lee Gifford, after she appeared on NBC’s TODAY Show in 2011.
    Amy had ambitious plans for Broadway, until she abruptly developed a blood clot the week before her high school senior prom. After being rushed to the hospital, her stomach exploded in the operating room, and after both her lungs collapsed, she nearly died. After waking up from a coma several months later, she was told she no longer had a stomach, and it was unknown whether she would ever be able to eat or drink again . After 27 surgeries and six of the past ten years unable to drink a drop of fluid, Amy’s digestive system was miraculously reconstructed and she learned that the human spirit heals through “gutsiness”, gratitude, and an overabundance of humor.

    Oestreicher’s story is always inspirational and surprisingly funny.” – Paulanne Simmons (Times Square Chronicles)
    Come for a moving night of song, stories and possibilities, all in a 70-minute musical comedy. Gutless & Grateful is no ordinary one-woman show, but a powerhouse production that leaves the audience in tears, laughing hysterically, and savoring every last bite as though it were their very first.
    Buy tickets at https://54below.com/events/amy-oestreicher-gutless-grateful/
    Tickets on the day of performance after 4:00 are only available by calling (646) 476-3551.

    Buy tickets HERE with exclusive Discount Code AMY35 if you reserve now.

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    Tickets & Info: (646) 476-3551

     


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