Theater Collaboration Celebrates Juneteenth with Play that Explores Difficult Conversations About Race

To commemorate Juneteenth, the celebration of emancipation from
slavery, nearly 40 Bay Area theaters and others nationwide are
collaborating on a project to bring a thought-provoking play about
race into people’s homes. As part of The Juneteenth Theater Justice
Project, staged readings of playwright Vincent Terrell Durham’s
play, “Polar Bears, Black Boys and Prairie Fringed Orchids”, will
be live streamed from theaters around the country on Zoom on June
19th. We’ll talk with the playwright and the project leader about
the play and what a celebration of freedom means in a time of
heightened attention to  systemic racism.