Channel: Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS

Category: Entertainment

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Description: Marilyn, Mom & Me, by Luke Yankee streamed Tuesday, April 27 through Saturday, May 1, with donations supporting Broadway Cares. The show explores the unique relationship between Yankee’s mother, actress Eileen Heckart, and film icon Marilyn Monroe. The play explores the chaotic world of moviemaking in 1950’s Hollywood to uncover universal truths about love and acceptance. *** Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS is one of the nation’s leading industry-based, nonprofit AIDS fundraising and grant-making organizations. By drawing upon the talents, resources and generosity of the American theatre community, since 1988 Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS has raised more than $300 million for essential services for people with HIV/AIDS, COVID-19 and other critical illnesses across the United States. Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS is the major supporter of the social service programs at The Actors Fund, including the HIV/AIDS Initiative, the Phyllis Newman Women’s Health Initiative and The Friedman Health Center for the Performing Arts. Broadway Cares also awards annual grants to more than 450 AIDS and family service organizations in all 50 states, Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C., providing lifesaving medication, healthy meals, counseling and emergency assistance. For more information, please visit Broadway Cares online at broadwaycares.org, at facebook.com/BCEFA, at instagram.com/BCEFA, at twitter.com/BCEFA and at youtube.com/BCEFA.