We stand in solidarity with our neighbors in Minnesota and across the country who are angry and grieving, protesting state-sanctioned violence and abuses of power, and organizing for the safety, dignity, and human rights of all. In this moment of crisis, our intention is to create a collective interruption that invites reflection, accountability, and recommitment to the values we claim as a nation, protesting and contrasting the abhorrent violence and abuses we are witnessing all around us.

Saturday, January 31
11AM–7PM
On the steps of The Public Theater, 425 Lafayette St.
This is a non-ticketed event. Live streaming will be available on this page starting at 11AM.

Join The Public Theater along with artists, elected officials, and community leaders, as we read seminal texts from the founding of our nation alongside writings and songs that articulate our shared ideals and democratic aspirations, not as history alone, but as a living call to action.

Artists have always been among the first to name the unspoken, to hear the unheard, and to imagine a more just world. In this moment of crisis, our intention is to create a collective interruption that invites reflection, accountability, and recommitment to the values we claim as a nation, protesting and contrasting the abhorrent violence and abuses we are witnessing all around us.

Participants include Annaleigh Ashford and Joe Tapper, Osh Ashruf, Sara Bareilles, Christine Baranski, Kaitlin Becker, Laura Benanti, Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen, Billy Bustamante, Jaime Cepero, Michael Cerveris, John Ellison Conlee, Jordan E. Cooper, Ariana DeBose, Micaela Diamond, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Jessica Hecht, Jeff Hiller, Quiara Alegría Hudes, Amber Iman, Nikki M. James, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Tony Kushner, John Leguizamo, Hamish Linklater and Lily Rabe, Jose Llana, Mona Mansour, Rebecca Martinez, Elizabeth Marvel, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Luis A. Miranda Jr., F. Murray Abraham, Cynthia Nixon, Robert O’Hara, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Heidi Schrek, Leigh Silverman, Shaina Taub, Dr. Luz Towns-Miranda, Constance Wu, and more to be announced.