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Visions and Voices, a Black Playwrights’ Reading Series show poster

Visions and Voices, a Black Playwrights’ Reading Series at Northwestern University Wirtz Center

Dates: (1/22/2021 - 2/14/2021 )

Theatre:

Northwestern University Wirtz Center


Virtual
Evaston,

Tickets: $10 (general public) and $5 (full-time, non-NU students), free for NU students, or $25 for package of all three plays

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The Black Playwrights Reading Series presented by the Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts and features first year Master of Fine Arts directing students and undergraduate and graduate actors. The three plays were chosen by the directors in consultation with faculty and the centers managing director from among hundreds and hundreds of scripts some which are familiar and others that deserve a wider audience and center around Racism in America, Police Brutality, Anti-Blackness, the Fight for Justice, and the Celebration of Black Lives. These directors are the first all-black cohort to join Northwestern Universitys MFA Directing Program.



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