Overview
- The Public Theater set the event for Saturday, January 31 from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. on the steps of its 425 Lafayette Street home, with free entry and a live stream to be detailed Friday.
- Organizers say artists, elected officials, and community leaders will read founding-era texts alongside writings and songs that articulate democratic ideals as a living call to action.
- Announced participants include Lin-Manuel Miranda, John Leguizamo, Constance Wu, Laura Benanti, Celia Keenan-Bolger, F. Murray Abraham, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Annaleigh Ashford, and others.
- Public Theater leadership says the gathering stands with people in Minnesota who are grieving and protesting state-sanctioned violence and abuses of power.
- Coverage links the action to recent ICE enforcement in Minnesota and other cities, with reports of fatalities and disputed self-defense claims; Deadline also reports Minnesota’s governor urged President Donald Trump to pull federal officers and notes calls for DHS Secretary Kristi Noem to resign.