Coming 1/23/23! Spare Rib the play at Ethical Culture, Tix available!
Additional Casting Announced for Winter Miller’s Play Spare Rib on January 23 at The New York Society for Ethical Culture
Additional casting has been announced for the upcoming benefit reading of Spare Rib by Winter Miller, hosted by Samantha Bee.
Joining Kathleen Chalfant (Angels in America, The Affair) is Fala Chen (Shang-Chi and Legend of the Ten Rings, Irma Vep), Kelli Giddish (Law & Order: SVU), and Elizabeth Marvel (The Dropout, King Lear on Broadway).
Directed by Jo Bonney(Cost of Living) and featuring music by Rona Siddiqui (A Strange Loop), Spare Rib will be presented on January 23 at 7:00pm at The New York Society for Ethical Culture’s Adler Hall. The evening is presented by Winter Miller, in partnership with New York Theatre Workshop, The Public Theater and NYFA (New York Foundation for the Arts). The performance is supported by a Celebration Committee: Freedome Bradley-Ballentine, Braley Degenhardt, Michael Francis, Patricia McGregor, Amrita Ramanan, and Brooke Thomson.
This one-night only event will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision. The fight for reproductive rights is far from over, so we gather together on January 23 in solidarity to raise money for Keep Our Clinics, the only national fundraising campaign dedicated exclusively to independent abortion clinics. All funds donated to Keep Our Clinics go directly to independent clinics to help them keep the doors open and the lights on so that they can continue to provide compassionate and dignified abortion care. Without clinics, people have nowhere to go.
Spare Rib, which The New Yorker calls a “quasi-comic drama about abortion,” is inspired by the work of playwrights Caryl Churchill and María Irene Fornés, and the artist Judy Chicago.
Doors open at 6:30 PM, and the performance begins at 7:00 PM. All audience members will be required to mask. $25 tickets are available now at https://givebutter.com/TwD8QF
Donations can be made directly to Keep Our Clinics at https://keepourclinics.org/
With support from: The NYC Women’s Fund for Media, Music and Theatre by the City of New York Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment in association with The New York Foundation for the Arts.
ABORTION CARE NETWORK
Abortion Care Network (ACN) is the fiercest champion for independent abortion clinics across the nation. Founded in 2008, we are the only national membership association for independent clinics and their allies. Independent clinics are crucial to ensuring patients can access the care they need and deserve today and into the future, which is why ACN plays a leading role in supporting the sustainability of these community-based clinics and the wellbeing of their staff. In fact, Independent clinics who are ACN members are 8 times more likely to keep their doors open than their non-member peers.
KEEP OUR CLINICS
In 2020, ACN launched the Keep Our Clinics program to help correct the historic underinvestment in independent clinics. Despite independent providers essential role in providing and protecting abortion care throughout American history, most people don’t even know these clinics exist. Furthermore, these clinics lack the institutional support, visibility, name recognition, or fundraising capacity of national health centers, nonprofits, and hospitals, making it especially difficult for them to secure the resources needed to keep their doors open. To help raise awareness and critical resources for the most important health care providers most people don’t know about, we created the Keep Our Clinics campaign. ACN covers all administrative costs so that 100% of donations from this campaign go directly to independent clinics.
