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Home Front

Runs through Feb 12th

Victory Theatre Center

3324 W. Victory Blvd

Burbank, CA 91505

HOME FRONT is the story of an interracial love affair by Tony Award-winning playwright Warren Leight.

This country will break your heart. The Victory Theatre Center presents the West Coast premiere of Home Front by Tony® Award-winning playwright Warren Leight (Side Man). Leight’s moving portrait of a post-World War II interracial marriage runs January 13 through February 19 at The Victory Theatre Center in Burbank with Victory co-artistic director Maria Gobetti at the helm.
 
VJ Night, 1945. On a night like this, anything can happen — the world is never going to be the way it was. Austin Highsmith Garces (seen at the Victory in Resolving Hedda and The End of Sex) and C.J. Lindsey (The Men in My Life, True Story on Netflix) star as a white woman and an African American soldier who fall in love the night World War II ends — a time of euphoria for Americans after years of devastating conflict. But can that sense of good will and new beginnings wipe away the racial mistrust and discrimination in a country still deeply mired in the Jim Crow Era?
 
LGBTQIA+ activist Jonathan Slavin (The Sisters Rosensweig on Broadway, Santa Clarita Diet, Dr. Ken, Better Off Ted) takes on the role of the couple’s upstairs neighbor, a gay army veteran modeled after Leight’s uncle.

Home Front opens and runs Fridays at 8 p.m., Saturdays at 8 p.m., and Sundays at 4 p.m. through February 12.

Tickets range from $28–$40, except previews which are $15. The Victory Theatre Center is located at 3324 W. Victory Blvd in Burbank, CA 91505. For information and to purchase tickets, call 818-841-5421 or go to www.thevictorytheatrecenter.org.