$15 online ticketing | $20 @ the door | Museum galleries (1st and 2nd floor) will be open 5:30pm – 7pm

In partnership with Everyman Theatre, The Lewis presents a special in community performance of excerpts from Queens Girl in the World by Caleen Sinette Jennings.

Act One. Meet Jacquelyn Marie Butler. A bright-eyed, brown-skinned young girl, whose sudden transfer from a protective, middle class late-1950s upbringing in Queens to a progressive, predominantly-Jewish private school in Greenwich Village, challenges her sense of self. Lively and poignant, Queens Girl in the World tags along for a young woman’s journey of self-discovery, at the onset of Civil Rights-era social change.

Following the first act performance, the museum will host Curated Thoughts. This essential conversation will feature the voices of the artists who created the work alongside real world perspectives that can speak to the realities of the play from Caleen Sinette Jennings (Professor of Theatre at American University), Treopia G. Washington (Director of Special Initiatives for College of Education, Bowie State University) and Nancy Barrick (retired Baltimore County Educator and helped lay the foundation for the Arena Players, the oldest African-American, continuously operating community theater group in the country).