The Victory Theatre Center

January 13-February 19, 2022
8:00PM, 4:00PM Matinee

3326 West Victory Blvd.,
Burbank, CA 91505

Home Front
by Tony-winning playwright Warren Leight

Jonathan Slavin stars as gay army vet in
moving tale of post-World War II interracial marriage

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.

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