This isn’t your Biden-era Kennedy Heart.
President Donald Trump has taken the reins of the D.C. cultural establishment, boosting its monetary prospects and shedding content material that insults giant swathes of the nation.
The progressive arts neighborhood hasn’t stopped shrieking over the transformation, together with a Broadway diva who wished to “blow up” the establishment below Trump’s watch.
Nonetheless, the Trumpian KenCen has corrected some cultural errors in just some quick months, above and past the fiscal nightmare that greeted it. Living proof? Hollywood legend Sylvester Stallone lastly took residence a Kennedy Heart Honors award.
It’s about time.
Now, a play recalling one of many worst terrorist assaults within the trendy period will grace the Kennedy Heart stage after a dramatic rollout.
“October 7” is drawn from survivor testimonies of Hamas’ barbaric assault on Israel. The savagery left 1,200 individuals lifeless and tons of extra as hostages. Phelim McAleer and spouse Ann McElhinnery wrote the play as “verbatim theater,” the place actual paperwork, not artistic license, flesh out the narrative.
The pair traveled to Israel shortly after Oct. 7 and interviewed survivors of the savagery, a lot of which was filmed by the terrorists and shared on social media. We hear from not simply those that survived the ordeal however the heroes who helped save Israeli residents from Hamas terrorists.
“October 7” debuted in Might of 2024 fo a six-week run that required a everlasting police presence to make sure patrons’ security. The tales inside embrace a mom who hid for hours with out realizing if her youngsters had survived the primary wave of assaults.
The manufacturing additionally highlights a police officer who saved dozens of innocents with a pistol and simply 9 bullets.
Since then, the manufacturing has hit the street, visiting faculty campuses together with Princeton, UCLA, and, most just lately, Bowdoin Faculty in Maine.
The inventive neighborhood has been reticent to discover the Oct. 7 assaults via artwork. Movies like “October 8” and “Screams Earlier than Silence” bought ignored by many cultural scribes. The Hollywood neighborhood, which regularly rallies to activist causes, largely stood down within the weeks and months that adopted the assault.
Many well-known names threw their weight behind Israel-themed boycotts as a substitute.
Tickets for “October 7” can be found now by way of The Kennedy Heart site for the Jan. 28 efficiency.