| Audible Theater Announces Limited Runs of Liza Jessie Peterson's THE PECULIAR PATRIOT and IN LOVE AND STRUGGLE at the Minetta Lane Theatre | |
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| AUDIBLE CELEBRATES THE POWER OF FEMALE STORYTELLING AT THE MINETTA LANE THEATRE In Love and Struggle Featuring Anita Hill, Sarah Jones, Mahogany L. Browne, Brittany Packnett Cunningham and more Three Performances Only - February 28-March 1 The Peculiar Patriot Written and Performed by Liza Jessie Peterson Three Performances Only - March 5-7 Tickets On Sale Now Limited Engagements To Be Recorded Live And Released Globally On Audible Audible, the world's largest producer and seller of original spoken-word entertainment and audiobooks, today announced two new limited engagement events this February and March at the Minetta Lane Theatre, Audible's creative home for live performances in New York. In celebration of the power of female storytelling and the intersection of Black History Month and Women's History Month, Audible will produce In Love and Struggle featuring Sarah Jones, Anita Hill and more, and The Peculiar Patriot written and performed by Liza Jessie Peterson. As with previous Audible Theater shows at the Minetta Lane, In Love and Struggle and The Peculiar Patriot will be recorded live as Audible Original productions and made available to listeners globally on Audible later this year. On February 28th, 29th and March 1st, In Love and Struggle will bring together a collection of extraordinarily dynamic and talented women of color for evenings of powerful monologues, music, comedy and tributes. The three-night limited engagement connects Black History Month and Women's History Month as only a leap year can, to create a unique storytelling moment for these impactful voices. On March 5th, 6th, and 7th, the multi-talented writer and performer Liza Jessie Peterson will showcase her acclaimed solo play - hailed as "powerful" by the Boston Globe - The Peculiar Patriot, a timely and urgent look at mass incarceration in America and the effects of a racially skewed justice system. "Audible is committed to highlighting the power of storytelling and we are proud to bring these two incredible, female-led shows to the Minetta Lane Theatre in the coming months," offered Kate Navin, Artistic Producer, Audible Theater. She continued, "In Love and Struggle and Peculiar Patriot showcase voices, experiences, and stories of vibrant women, which we hope will inspire and engage the community across both the live audiences and Audible listeners." More about In Love and Struggle, Friday, February 28 & Saturday, February 29 @ 8PM; Sunday, March 1 at 3PM: In Love and Struggle brings together a group of prestigious women of color to share their stories during this unique calendar moment, a leap year which serves as a bridge, uniting Black History Month and Women's History Month. A rotating slate of participants will include actor Sarah Jones, law professor Anita Hill, commentator Brittany Packnett Cunningham, model and speaker Aaron Philip, poet Mahogany L. Browne, writer Bassey Ikpi, scholar Salamishah Tillet, musician Toshi Reagon, author Jodie Patterson, hip-hop artist Mumu Fresh, harpist Brandee Younger and more to be announced. In Love and Struggle will be recorded live at the Minetta Lane Theatre and released as an Audible Original later this year, extending its reach to millions of Audible listeners around the world. Performers subject to change. With creative producer and director Monica L. Williams, curator Rebecca Carroll and creative advisor Kamilah Forbes, Audible Theater's presentation of In Love and Struggle features lighting design by Jen Schreiver, sound design by Justin Ellington and projection design by Katherine Freer and Alex Koch. The show takes its name from a phrase writer Alice Walker inscribed years ago into a book she signed for young journalist Rebecca Carroll-now a critic at WNYC and the curator of the show. Tickets to In Love and Struggle start at $49 and are available now at Ticketmaster.com. More about The Peculiar Patriot, Thursday, March 5- Saturday, March 7 at 7 PM: Betsy LaQuanda Ross is a self-proclaimed "Peculiar Patriot," who makes regular visits to penitentiaries in order to boost the morale of her loved ones. When she is not sharing neighborhood updates and gossip, Betsy illuminates our country's cruel and unjust criminal justice system and its impact not only on the 2.3 million people behind bars, but also their family and friends. Written and performed by the inimitable Liza Jessie Peterson and inspired by her decades-long work with prison populations including on the notorious Riker's Island, The Peculiar Patriot is a fierce, funny, and shrewd indictment of the systemic inequity within America's fastest growing industry, tracing its roots from the plantation to the prison yard. Originally produced by the National Black Theatre and Hi-Arts, The Peculiar Patriot will be recorded live at the Minetta Lane Theatre and released as an Audible Original later this year, extending its reach to millions of Audible listeners around the world. With Original Direction by Talvin Wilks, Audible Theater's presentation of The Peculiar Patriot features staging by Jonathan McCrory, scenic and lighting design by Maruti Evans, costume design by LaToya Murray-Berry, sound design by Luqman Brown and projection design by Katherine Freer. Tickets to The Peculiar Patriot start at $23 and are available now at Ticketmaster.com. Additionally, a limited amount of rush tickets for In Love and Struggle and The Peculiar Patriot will be available on a first-come, first-served basis beginning at 10:00am on both performance days. Rush tickets will be sold exclusively by TodayTix for $25. To gain access to rush tickets, ticket-buyers must download the TodayTix app and unlock the functionality by sharing on their Facebook or Twitter pages. Tickets will be available for pick up at the Minetta Lane Theatre box office. Mobile rush concludes when inventory has sold out or two hours before the performance. Other upcoming events at Audible's Minetta Lane Theatre include Dan Rather's "Stories Of A Lifetime," directed by Kimberly Senior, playing two performances only on Tuesday, February 18 and Wednesday, February 19 at 7PM. Recent live events have included The Half-Life of Marie Curie, an Audible Emerging Playwrights Fund commission by Lauren Gunderson, directed by Gaye Taylor Upchurch, and starring Kate Mulgrew and Francesca Faridany; and Common's "Bluebird Memories: A Journey Through Lyrics & Life." These and other award-winning and critically acclaimed Audible performances of captivating stage productions starring Billy Crudup, Judith Light, John Lithgow, Carey Mulligan, Aasif Mandvi, and more are available for pre-order or download at www.audible.com/theater. Additional events at the Minetta Lane Theatre will be announced in the coming months and Audible has also announced live performances in London and Los Angeles. Information about previous and future live programming produced by Audible is available here. With a 30-day membership trial at Audible, new listeners can enjoy any one audiobook, including the audio performances of productions at the Minetta Lane Theatre, free. BIOGRAPHIES: MONICA L. WILLIAMS (In Love and Struggle, Director/Creative Producer ) is a producer, director, conceptual performance artist creating across genres and disciplines. Her work has been presented at various community-based organizations, festivals, Off-Broadway theaters and major cultural institutions including The Apollo Theater, John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Joe's Pub at the Public Theater, TED Women Conference, and the National Black Arts Festival. Her arts-based engagement with families of the incarcerated is practiced within community-based organizations in New York, California and Louisville, Kentucky with The Special Project, a 10 year public installation designed with the Kentucky Foundation for Women. Williams is also the creator of #LoveHustle, an artist-led, multi-platform conversation, and lectures in the African American Studies department at New York City College of Technology. REBECCA CARROLL (In Love and Struggle, Curator) is a cultural critic and editor of special projects at WNYC, where she develops and produces a broad array of multi-platform content, and hosts live event series in The Greene Space, as well as her weekly on-air conversation series about race and culture, REBEL. Her personal essays, cultural commentary, profiles and opinion pieces have appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Guardian, Essence, New York Magazine, Ebony, and Esquire, among other publications. She is the author of several books about race and blackness in America, including the award-winning Sugar in the Raw, and her memoir, Surviving the White Gaze, is forthcoming from Simon & Schuster. KAMILAH FORBES (In Love and Struggle, Creative Advisor) is the executive producer of the Apollo Theater, and an award-winning director and producer, with a strong commitment to the development of creative works by, for, and about the Hip-Hop Generation. She co-created the Hip-Hop Theater Festival, a national nonprofit organization which has featured the works of nearly 100 artists from the United States and from around the world. Other projects produced by Ms. Forbes include: What's Going On (the 40th anniversary celebration of Marvin Gaye's seminal conversation with America); One Mic; and Nas' 20 Year Anniversary of Illmatic at the Kennedy Center; she also developed and directed the stage adaptation of Ta-Nehisi Coates' Between the World and Me. She has produced several works for both television and theater, most notably the seven-season Peabody Award-winning series Russell Simmons presents Def Poetry on HBO. She was also a coexecutive producer on the Brave New Voices documentary series on HBO, in addition to executive-producing the most recent PBS special The Women's List. Her awards include a NAACP Image Award, a Tony Award, numerous Helen Hayes Award nominations, and The Mayor's Arts Award for Emerging Theatre Artist. SARAH JONES (In Love and Struggle, Performer) is a Tony Award-winning performer and writer known for her multi-character, one-person shows (Broadway hit Bridge & Tunnel, originally produced by Meryl Streep, and her current, critically-acclaimed show Sell/Buy/Date). Renowned as "a one-woman global village", she has given multiple main-stage TED Talks garnering millions of views, performed for President and First Lady Obama at the White House, and developed a docuseries based on her characters with Ron Howard's Imagine Entertainment. Most recently, Jones launched Foment Productions, a social justice-focused entertainment company. Sell/Buy/Date, which was commissioned by the NoVo Foundation, was its first production. LIZA JESSIE PETERSON (The Peculiar Patriot, Writer and Performer) is an artivist: an actress, playwright, author and poet. Her critically acclaimed one woman show, The Peculiar Patriot, premiered at the National Black Theater in Harlem, was nominated for a Drama Desk Award and received a generous grant from Agnes Gund's prestigious Art for Justice Fund. Liza performed The Peculiar Patriot in over 35 penitentiaries across the country. She recently performed it at Angola State Penitentiary in Louisiana for a live audience of over 700 men and was live streamed throughout the entire prison, which is currently in development for a documentary. Liza is author of ALL DAY: A Year of Love and Survival Teaching Incarcerated Kids at Rikers Island (Hachette publishing). She was featured in Ava Duvernay's, The 13th and was a consultant on Bill Moyer's documentary Rikers (PBS). www.lizajessiep.com ABOUT AUDIBLE Audible, Inc., an Amazon.com, Inc. subsidiary (NASDAQ:AMZN), is the leading provider of premium digital spoken audio content, offering customers a new way to enhance and enrich their lives every day. Audible content includes more than 500,000 audio programs from leading audiobook publishers, broadcasters, entertainers, magazine and newspaper publishers, and business information providers. |
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