AMAS Presents IMMIGRANT With John McKutcheon 4/22

AMAS MUSICAL THEATRE presents IMMIGRANT starring JOHN McKUTCHEON. Written by SI KAHN, directed by David Glenn Armstrong

Join six-time Grammy Award-nominee John McCutcheon as he tells the story of legendary Swedish-American union agitator and songwriter Joe Hill, a champion of American immigrant rights in the early 20th Century.

He traveled the front lines of labor battles in the U.S. and Canada, writing songs to encourage the workers and to promote the burgeoning labor movement... until his arrest on a trumped-up murder charge in Salt Lake City in 1915.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22 @ 3.00PM

Judson Memorial Church
55 Washington Square South, New York City
(wheelchair accesible entrance 243 Thompson Street)

ONE PERFORMANCE ONLY
ADMISSION IS FREE

For Reservations call (212) 563-2565 or email amasevents@aol.com

www.amasmusical.org

PRESENTED BY AMAS MUSICAL THEATRE
Donna Trinkoff/Producing Artistic Director

Amas Musical Theatre is a non-profit, multi-ethnic theatrical organization founded in 1968 by Ms. Rosetta LeNoire. The Amas mission is grounded in non-traditional, multi-ethnic production, education and casting. Amas ("you love" in Latin) is devoted to the creation, development and professional production of new American musicals through the celebration of diversity and minority perspectives, the emergence of new artistic talent, and the training of inner-city young people. Recent productions include Wanda's World, Shout! The Mod Musical, Lone Star Love, From My Hometown, Zanna, Don't! and Stormy Weather: The Story of Lena Horne.`

 

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