WOMEN’S EQUALITY DAY 2025 at Hollywood Central Performing Arts Center – Hollywood, FL

Make no mistake, America’s Suffragettes had a sense of humor, plenty of talent, and big plans to effect change that would benefit future generations of women.

In Thinking Cap Theatre’s special lineup, audiences will experience live performances of suffragette comedies and songs written between 1900-1920 and enjoy a celebratory reception.

Doors will open at 6:45pm for the reception, which will be accompanied by a live pianist, performing popular music from the early twentieth century.

Live performances in the theater will begin promptly at 7:30pm. The program will be approximately 1-hour long. Dessert, conversation, and photos will follow in the lobby.

More about the Plays

Dubbed “parlor plays,” these short suffragette comedies were privately printed and originally intended for amateur performance at home in, you guessed it, people’s parlors. In the late 1970s, while doing research at Radcliffe College, scholar Bettina Friedl rediscovered these long forgotten treasures and compiled them into a special edition. These dramatic gems humorously and pointedly tackle issues such as the work/life balance dilemma and the oppressiveness of socially-prescribed gender roles. Viewers can expect to enjoy some laughs and marvel at both how far we’ve come and how we’ve still to go in the journey for equal human rights.

Thank you to community partners Hollywood Art and Culture Center League of Women Voters of Broward County, Hollywood Historical Society, Stonewall National Museum, Archives, & Library, and The Skirt Foundation.