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Home Front (play)
''Home Front'' is a play by Warren Leight. It tells the story of an interracial couple, Annie and James, who meet while celebrating V-J Day, and was inspired by the famous photo of a kiss in Times Square. The story showcases the daily life of the couple in New York City and the deep South, where James is stationed awaiting his final release. Production history The character of James was inspired by the men of the Golden 13 and Eddie, the neighbor, by Leight's uncle. The show, whose first scene was written as part of a benefit event in 1998 and had an original run under the name ''James and Annie'' in 2003, had readings in 2011 and 2018 before a Twitter inquiry brought fresh eyes to it. It made its West Coast premiere in January 2023 at the Victory Theater Center in Burbank, California, with Austin Highsmith Garces as Annie, C.J. Lindsey as James and Jonathan Slavin as their gay ''Gay'' is a term that primarily refers to a homosexual person or the trait of being homo ...
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Warren Leight
Warren Donald Leight (; born January 17, 1957) is an American playwright, screenwriter, film director and television producer. He is best known for his work on '' Law & Order: Criminal Intent'' and '' Lights Out'' and as the showrunner for ''In Treatment'' and '' Law & Order: Special Victims Unit''. His play ''Side Man'' was a finalist for the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Biography Personal life Warren Leight was born to jazz trumpeter Don Leight (1923–2004), and his wife, Timmy, the second of two children. Both Warren and his older sister, Jody (b. 1955), grew up with financial trouble and around clubs. In the 1950s, his father played with jazz musicians such as Claude Thornhill, Woody Herman and Buddy Rich. Leight's uncle, Larry, and paternal great-grandfather, Harry Gurovitch, were also trumpet players of Russian descent. His grandmother, Sarah Gurowitsch, was a cellist. He was raised in the Sunnyside section of the borough of Queens and the Upper West Side of Manhatt ...
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Burbank, California
Burbank is a city in the southeastern end of the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles County, California, United States. Located northwest of downtown Los Angeles, Burbank had a Census-estimated population of 102,755 as of 2023. The city was named after David Burbank, who established a sheep ranch there in 1867. Burbank consists of two distinct areas: a downtown/foothill section, in the foothills of the Verdugo Mountains, and the flatland section. Numerous media and entertainment companies are headquartered or have significant production facilities in Burbank—often called the "Media Capital of the World" and only a few miles northeast of Hollywood—including Warner Bros. Entertainment, the Walt Disney Company, Nickelodeon Animation Studio, The Burbank Studios, Cartoon Network Studios with the West Coast branch of Cartoon Network, and Insomniac Games. Universal plays a key role in attractions and entertainment in Burbank, with its theme park Universal Studios Holl ...
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Plays Set In New York City
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Interracial Marriage In The United States
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2023 Plays
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Jonathan Slavin
Jonathan Slavin (born November 8, 1969) is an American actor. Early life Slavin was born in Camp Lejeune, North Carolina and raised in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Career Slavin portrayed illustrator Andy Richter Controls the Universe#Characters, Byron Togler on the Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox network's sitcom ''Andy Richter Controls the Universe'', Ogo on the CGI animated show ''Robot and Monster'', and scientist Phil Myman on American Broadcasting Company, ABC's sitcom ''Better Off Ted''. He appeared as a member the main cast of ''Dr. Ken'' and ''The Republic of Sarah'' and as a recurring character on '' Speechless (TV series), Speechless'' and ''Santa Clarita Diet''. Slavin has also had guest roles on series such as ''Dharma & Greg'', ''Castle (TV series), Castle'', ''Grey's Anatomy'', ''My Name Is Earl'', ''Summerland (TV series), Summerland'', ''Friends'', ''Grimm (TV series), Grimm'', ''Weeds (TV series), Weeds'', ''Wings (1990 TV series), Wings'', ''ER (TV series), ER' ...
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Austin Highsmith Garces
Austin Highsmith Garces, also credited as Austin Highsmith (born March 3, 1981), is an American actress. Garces played Phoebe in '' Dolphin Tale'' as well as the sequel, '' Dolphin Tale 2'' and Garces later co-wrote a Lifetime film based on the series. She later wrote and co-starred in ''Harvest of the Heart''. In January 2023, she originated the role of Annie in Warren Leight's ''Home Front'' at Burbank's Victory Theater Center. Garces is from Winston-Salem, North Carolina and was a 1999 graduate of Richard J. Reynolds High School Richard J. Reynolds High School now the Richard J. Reynolds Magnet School for the Visual and Performing Arts (often simply R. J. Reynolds High School or Reynolds) is a high school in the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools located in Winston-S .... References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Highsmith Garces, Austin 1981 births American actresses Living people ...
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West Coast Of The United States
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Interracial Marriage
Interracial marriage is a marriage involving spouses who belong to different "Race (classification of human beings), races" or Ethnic group#Ethnicity and race, racialized ethnicities. In the past, such marriages were outlawed in the United States, Nazi Germany and apartheid-era South Africa as miscegenation (Latin: 'mixing types'). The word, now usually considered pejorative, first appeared in ''Miscegenation hoax, Miscegenation: The Theory of the Blending of the Races, Applied to the American White Man and Negro'', a hoax anti-abolitionist pamphlet published in 1864. Even in 1960, interracial marriage was forbidden by law in 31 U.S. states. It became legal throughout the United States in 1967, following the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States under Chief Justice of the United States, Chief Justice Earl Warren in the case ''Loving v. Virginia'', which ruled that race-based restrictions on marriages, such as the Anti-miscegenation laws, anti-miscegenation law in t ...
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