She Is History

Part of Theatre West’s Solopalooza 2.022, She is History is Los Angeles’s longest-running solo show returns to the stage. Alarmed when her 10-year-old daughter decides to do her women’s history report on Cher or Janet Jackson, Mom becomes obsessed with and gets inspiration and strength from our unknown, unheralded and forgotten women in history. Going back and forth from the past to the present, Amy Simon poignantly finds the funny as she chronicles the struggles and accomplishments of our unheralded, unknown and forgotten heroines whose courage and strength inspire her as she raises her two daughters. in these funny, enlightening, politically and socially relevant, emotionally charged slices of modern and herstorical life.