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Reading Time: < 1minuteBRIEF: Proposition 8 play coming to Bing Crosby Theater 1
“8,” a play about the constitutionality of marriage and California’s Proposition 8 will take the stage at The Bing Crosby Theater at 8 p.m. on Aug. 8.
The 90-minute play, written by Academy Award-winning author Dustin Lance Black, documents the Perry vs. Schwarzenegger trial using court transcripts and first-hand interviews.
Following the play will be a panel discussion with Charlene Strong, advocate for social justice and civil rights, Elizabeth W. Goldstein, assistant professor of religious studies at Gonzaga University her partner Rabbi Tamar Malino, executive director of Spokane Area Jewish Family Services.
Tracy Simmons is an award-winning journalist specializing in religion reporting and digital entrepreneurship. In her approximate 20 years on the religion beat, Simmons has tucked a notepad in her pocket and found some of her favorite stories aboard cargo ships in New Jersey, on a police chase in Albuquerque, in dusty Texas church bell towers, on the streets of New York and in tent cities in Haiti. Simmons has worked as a multimedia journalist for newspapers across New Mexico, Texas, Connecticut and Washington. She is the executive director of FāVS.News, a digital journalism start-up covering religion news and commentary in Spokane, Washington. She also writes for The Spokesman-Review and national publications. She is a Scholarly Associate Professor of Journalism at Washington State University.
