What the Constitution Means to Me

Direct from Broadway, playwright Heidi Schreck's boundary-breaking play breathes new life into our Constitution and imagines how it will shape the next generation of Americans.

Fifteen year old Heidi earned her college tuition by winning Constitutional debate competitions across the United States. In this hilarious, hopeful and achingly human new play, she resurrects her teenage self in order to trace the profound relationship between four generations of women and the founding document that shaped their lives.

Schreck's timely and galvanizing play became a sensation off-Broadway before transferring to Broadway where it received two Tony Award nominations among countless other accolades. The New York Times hailed What the Constitution Means to Me as "not just the best play to open on Broadway so far this season, but also the most important."

“Endearingly funny and deeply affecting... It would be hard to identify a work for the theater with its finger more on the pulse of America right now.” – Peter Marks, The Washington Post

“Uproariously funny, wrenchingly moving, critically challenging and politically inspiring.” – David Cole, The New York Review of Books

“A charming and incisive analysis of gender and racial biases inherent to the U.S. Constitution that examines how this living document could evolve to fit modern America.” – 2019 Pulitzer Prize Committee

“What the Constitution Means to Me is one of the things we always say we want theater to be: an act of civic engagement. It restarts an argument many of us forgot we even needed to have.” – Jesse Green, The New York Times

Running time is approximately 2 hours with one intermission.

We need three (3) volunteers per night to cover the positions of box office & concessions. As a volunteer, you also get to see that performance for free*! 

• Box office volunteers will sit at the box office table and help sell tickets, check people in, and provide information to patron before the show.
• Concession volunteers will be stationed in the concession stand to sell drinks and snacks to patrons before the show and during intermission. They will also help collect trash and straighten up the theatre after the performance.

All volunteers will need to arrive at the performance venue by 6:15pm on the night you select to volunteer (4:45pm on Sundays). Click the link to access the Volunteer Sign Up form and reserve your spot! 

For this production, we are asking all volunteers to please wear either all black or a white top and black pants. 

Questions? Email us at info@actorstheatrelr.org and we will get back to you asap!