Description:  WomenArts is collaborating with NewShoe,Cherry Lane Theatre, and the League of Professional Theatre Women to do a special SWAN Day event in New York designed to stimulate more discussion about federal arts funding.

NewShoe, a group of playwrights and theatre directors in New York, has created Mixed Relief, an original one-act play that weaves together voices of women artists of the WPA and contemporary women playwrights. Our joint SWAN Day event will feature a reading of their forty-minute play followed by a panel discussion led by WomenArts Executive Director Martha Richards and a panel discussion hosted by the League of Professional Theatre Women. It will take place at Cherry Lane Theatre on Monday, March 22 at 7 p.m.