Name: Hidden Heroes at the Milwaukee Youth Arts Center
Start: 2022-08-13T13:00:00-05:00
Location: Milwaukee Youth Arts Center

Hidden Heroes at the Milwaukee Youth Arts Center

About First StageFirst Stage is one of the nation’s most acclaimed theaters for young audiences, and is the second largest theater company in Milwaukee. First Stage touches hearts, engages minds and transforms lives by creating extraordinary theater experiences for young people and families through:Professional theater productions that inspire, enlighten and entertainUnparalleled Theater Academy training that fosters life skills through stage skillsDynamic Theater in Education programs that promoteactive learning in our schools and community

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Join us for this reading of a new play from Shá Cage, part of the Milwaukee Black Theatre Festival. Admission is free.

Milwaukee Youth Arts Center

Amplify Reading Series 2022/23 season

First Stage's Amplify Reading Series features readings of three new plays, lifting the voices of underrepresented playwrights and artists. A talkback follows each reading. Details at www.firststage.org/about-us/new-play-development

HIDDEN HEROES New Play Reading - August 13 & 14

HIDDEN HEROESBy Shá CageBased on the book Hidden Human Computers: The Black Women of NASA by Sue Bradford Edwards and Duchess Harris. Published by ABDO Publishing, Minneapolis, MN. Copyright © 2017Directed by Samantha D. MontgomeryPresented as part of the <a href="https://www.blackartsmke.org/season/milwaukee-black-theater-festival.php" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Milwaukee Black Theatre Festival</a>New Play Reading:<ul><li>Saturday, August 13, 2022 at 1PM &amp; 3:30PM at the <a href="https://www.firststage.org/plan-your-visit/locations-and-parking/#MYAC" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Milwaukee Youth Arts Center</a></li><li>Sunday, August 14, 2022 at 2PM at the <a href="http://www.wbhsm.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Wisconsin Black Historical Society Museum</a></li></ul>

About the Play: “It doesn’t matter what you look like, what your size is, what your color is. You can be anything you want to, but you do have to work at it,” says Annie Easley’s mother to her young daughter. In the 1950s and 60s, the black women of NASA fought against racial and gender discrimination for a place on the leading edge of math, science and technology. Be inspired as we tell the stories of how these women were influenced as young girls to eventually make critical contributions that launched U.S. astronauts into space and returned them safely back to Earth. For families with young people ages 7 and up.

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