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First Mothers: The Women Who Raised America’s Presidents

Nov 4, 2024 - Nov 4, 2024 | 7:00 pm - 10:30 pm

New Hazlett Theater
6 Allegheny Square East
Pittsburgh, PA 15212

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DESPITE THE personal and political diversity of the men occupying the White House over the last two centuries, one common factor emerges — the essential ethical character and philosophical outlook of each were strongly shaped by his Mother.

Through compelling first-person dramatizations, FIRST MOTHERS presents crucial moments in the lives of 15 women who not only raised a President . . . but helped determine the destiny of the United States as we know it today.

FEATURING: Elizabeth Jackson, Sara Roosevelt, Lillian Carter, Dorothy Ford, Rose Kennedy, Hannah Nixon, Martha Truman, Nelle Reagan, Virginia Clinton, Ann Obama, Mary Washington, Rebekah Johnson, Mary Anne Trump, Sarah Lincoln, Nancy Lincoln