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Pride Film And Plays Honors Pulse Shooting Victims With 'After Orlando'

By Josh McGhee | November 15, 2016 5:18am
 Staged readings in remembrance of the victims of the Pulse shooting will take place across the United States and United Kingdom this fall.
Staged readings in remembrance of the victims of the Pulse shooting will take place across the United States and United Kingdom this fall.
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UPTOWN — The Pride Arts Center's Broadway Theatre will host an evening of staged readings of short plays written in response to the shooting at Pulse Nightclub in Orlando this Tuesday.

Beginning at 7 p.m. Tuesday, 16 readings directed by Iris Solwat, Denise Yvette Serna, JD Caudill and Aaron Arbiter, with sound by Jim Alrutz will take place at the new theater at 4139 N. Broadway in Uptown.

"After Orlando" is "an international playwright driven action" presented by more than 70 playwrights in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Africa and Australia, according to a news release for the event.

The plays, which were written and curated in response to the mass shooting that left 49 people dead and 53 wounded in a gay night club in Florida this June, will be read at more than 40 venues in the US and United Kingdom this fall, the release said.

The Chicago performance will be free of charge, but a donation collection will take place. The proceeds wil be split between Equality Florida, CALOR and Pride Arts Center.

The Pride Arts Center is occupied by Pride Films and Plays with seating for 85 and 50 people between its two theaters.

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