In 2017, Abbe Tanenbaum chose Erie for the debut of her play about the fraught, perilous choices women faced to seek an abortion before Roe v. Wade. Five years later, her play has a new name, a longer run, a tighter script, fewer actors, and a wider audience.
Tannenbaum, 35, credits her Erie family members, friends, teachers and theater colleagues with helping her play make the leap from Performing Arts Collective Alliance (PACA) on State Street, to the Carnegie Stage in Pittsburgh, and now to the cell theatre (stylized in all lowercase) in Chelsea, Manhattan's arts district.
