News: Show for Human Rights

Marking International Human Rights Day, Thursday, December 10 with a special post-performance tribute to Amnesty International's life-saving work, the creators of Broadway's acclaimed new show FELA! will inspire theater-goers to take action to help free individuals worldwide who are imprisoned unjustly -- like the Nigerian revolutionary musician and political activist Fela Anikulapo-Kuti was decades ago.

Following the performance, Tony Award-winning director / choreographer Bill T. Jones will urge support for Amnesty International's annual Write-a-Thon, which uses the proven power of letter writing to make a difference in the lives of prisoners of conscience, human rights defenders, victims of torture and other people whose human rights are trampled around the world.

FELA! is a new musical directed and choreographed by Bill T. Jones with a book by Jim Lewis, in which audiences are welcomed into the extravagant and rebellious world of Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti

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