Adam Driver Hosts Free Armed Forces Event At American Airlines Theater, 11/7

ARTS in the ARMED FORCES (AITAF) presents an evening of monologues and jazz on Broadway at The American Airlines Theatre, 227 West 42nd Street, Monday, November 7th at 8pm in honor of Veterans Day. The event is free to all former and current servicemen and women & their families (though the material performed is of an adult nature, so no unattended minors are permitted), and civilians with no military affiliation may attend with a suggested donation of $20, which can be made on at www.aitaf.org. Reservations can be made by emailing contact@aitaf.org with one's name and number of seats requested. There are no paper tickets and it is general seating.

Michael Greif will direct the evening, which is produced by Adam Driver (former Marine) & Joanne Tucker, both actors and co-founders and artistic directors of AITAF.

Former Marine and playwright and screenwriter, John Patrick Shanley, will be speaking and introducing the evening. David Schwimmer, John Glover, Tracie Thoms, Harris Yulin, Francois Battiste, Marylouise Burke, Saidah Ekulona, Jesse J. Perez, Ron Cephas Jones and the Jon Batiste jazz trio will be performing, among others.

The evening consists of a scene and several monologues from modern plays interspersed with jazz, for an audience of military veterans and current service men and women and their families from in and around the New York City area, as well as a cross-section of the performing arts and civilian communities. The material performed is selected with an eye to what might speak to this particular audience, without being exclusively war-themed or focused.

One of AITAF's main interests lies in erasing the distinctions of what makes one person a soldier and another an artist by exposing two seemingly different communities to the same stories in the hopes that their individual responses will lead to inspired dialogue.

About Arts in the Armed Forces:
AITAF was created to bridge the gap between the military and the performing arts communities by producing a series of free performances, under the structure of monologues and jazz, for a mixed military and civilian audience. The material performed is selected with an eye to what might speak to this particular audience, without being exclusively war-themed or focused. (www.aitaf.org).

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