WTC View - a 25th Anniversary Reading at Celebration Theatre

Celebration Theatre and LA LGBT Center Present WTC VIEW, a 25th Anniversary Reading, directed by Michael Urie for One Night Only (Friday, September 11) Emmy nominee Michael Urie (Oh, Mary!, Shrinking) returns to direct Brian Sloan’s 9/11 play years after making his stage and screen debut in the lead role. On Friday, September 11th, twenty-five years to the day of the World Trade Center attacks, Celebration Theatre and LA LGBT Center co-produce a special anniversary staged reading of WTC View at the beautiful Renberg Theatre. Miles Heizer (Netflix’s Boots) takes on the lead role, with a stellar supporting cast to be announced.

This isn't a play about September 11th — it's about the strange, tender weeks after, when a gay photographer in Lower Manhattan places a roommate ad the night before the towers fall. Queer survival, chosen family, and the strangers who become lifelines when the world cracks open. Shares Director Michael Urie:

“I was just beginning my third year of drama school in New York on 9/11, and I vividly remember how raw we New Yorkers still were when we premiered the play in 2003. Returning to the piece to make the film, sharing it with the world, and revisiting it through anniversary readings have each breathed new life into it for me. Now Brian’s beautiful play is a time capsule of those weeks following 9/11, when we were all babies in a new world and the interactions we had with strangers were so intimate and heartfelt. Hearing the play yet again on the 25th anniversary will be very moving.”

Written by screenwriter and playwright Brian Sloan (I Think I Do, Boys Life) and first staged at the 2003 New York Fringe Festival, WTC View became one of the American Theatre's earliest, most intimate responses to 9/11 — later adapted into a film starring its original cast. Sloan reflects, “I’m thrilled to be working with Celebration Theatre to bring my play back for this special reading. It’s truly amazing to have Michael Urie directing… it’s a beautiful, full-circle moment to have him come back to the play now as the director."

Celebration Theatre and LA LGBT Center invite the community to experience this one-night-only anniversary evening of remembrance and reflection with the playwright, special guests, and dignitaries in attendance.

ABOUT CELEBRATION THEATRE Since 1982, Celebration Theatre has been Los Angeles’ enduring home for LGBTQ+ storytelling, giving voice to the evolving experience of queer and trans culture. Established in a Silverlake storefront at the height of the AIDS crisis by Mattachine Society co-founder and gay rights activist Charles “Chuck” Rowland, the theatre quickly became a vital sanctuary for LGBTQ+ artists and audiences. Now a nationally recognized pioneer of bold, transformative work, the theatre has presented over 100 groundbreaking productions, including world premieres that have found regional, Off-Broadway, and international acclaim. For over four generations, Celebration has helped launch the careers of artists across stage, film, and television. With dozens of local theatre awards and honors—including GLAAD, NAACP, and LA PRIDE—as well as sustained partnerships with leading cultural institutions, Celebration Theatre continues to foster community through the performing arts and advance LGBTQ+ representation at a time when queer and trans voices are urgently needed. Tax-deductible donations can be kindly accepted at: CELEBRATIONTHEATRE.ORG.