A Bright Room Called Day

Taking place from 1932-33 in Berlin, A Bright Room Called Day covers the period of the rise of the Nazis and the demise of democracy, culminating with the Reichstag fire. From then on, civil liberties were crushed, the Communist party outlawed, and the first concentration camps set up. Six friends – bohemians, artists, Marxists, try to save their souls, and their lives during this tumultuous time. When first presented twenty years ago, during the Regan years, it seemed to some far fetched to compare that period to today, but now, in the uneasy times in which we live, when there is widespread concern about civil liberties, wiretapping, foreign invasion, it has morphed into nothing less than a stunning tribute to Kushner’s prescience, with the Weimar Republic standing as a frighteningly accurate metaphor for the state of things today. Stephan Morrow directs.

The cast includes Judith Malina, Joan MacIntosh, Angelica Torn, Henry Stram, Larry Block, Anya Migdal, Alexandra Eitel, Chris Kerson, Jody Carter, Jason Howard and Hanon Reznikov.

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No Reservations Necessary