Rally for a benefit reading of Winter Miller’s play, Spare Rib and celebrate with a birthday party for Roe v. Wade’s 47th and the centennial of women’s suffrage.
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On January 15th, 16th, and 22nd at 7:30pm at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, many of New York's finest actors will perform a reading of Winter Miller’s powerful and exhilarating play, Spare Rib, which The New Yorker calls a "quasi-comic drama about abortion." Each evening is anchored by Kathleen Chalfant (Angels in America, House of Cards) and features a rotating cast of actors including, Purva Bedi (Dance Nation), Cindy Cheung (High Maintenance), Paige Gilbert (The Rose Tattoo), Susan Hyon (Happy Hour), Maryann Plunkett (Little Women), Kate Rigg (The Jammer), Jeanine Serralles (Girls), Lily Santiago-Hudson (Othello), Pernell Walker (The Deuce), and Zoe Winters (Succession).
JUST ANNOUNCED: Tina Benko (Taymor's Midsummer Night's Dream, van Hove's Scenes from a Marriage), and Emily Davis (Is This A Room, The Plagiarists) are joining us!
The party will never be the same twice!
A different activist will host each night. Jan 15th, Slate columnist Dahlia Lithwick joins us on to introduce Tammi Kromenaker, from the Red River Woman's Clinic, North Dakota’s only provider. Ms. Kromenaker will stay with us for the 16th, and Samantha Bee will be with us on Jan 22nd!
We know that the reproductive freedoms won with Roe are under threat. In fact, in some places, our freedoms have effectively been violated.
This may be Roe's last birthday, so to fuel the fight ahead for freedom for all, we'll be serving up appropriately-themed birthday cake with champagne for our audiences. These three evenings will raise money toward a full production of Spare Rib, and help fund abortions at Red River Clinic, North Dakota's only provider, and at Trust Women’s clinics in Oklahoma and Kansas.
Inspired by the work of playwrights Caryl Churchill and María Irene Fornés and the artist Judy Chicago, Spare Rib tracks a secret cabal of (in)famous women who demand reproductive freedom. winter miller’s community theater is thrilled to be back at the Rattlestick after our sold out run of No One is Forgotten. These three evenings will raise money toward funding a full production of Spare Rib and to directly fund abortion providers in the south. Join us!
winter miller’s community theater in association with Lory Henning (Blue Man Group) are thrilled to be back at the Rattlestick after our sold out run of No One is Forgotten.
winter miller's community theater is a playwright-driven theater company. We produce work which is fearlessly curious and openly tender to explore our shared humanity authentically. We aim to surprise and entertain with art which comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable. We embrace risk as there is no alternative.
