Anne & Emmett is an insightful one act play written and directed by Janet Langhart Cohen for Langhart Communications and her husband, former Secretary of Defense William Cohen.

Tickets are $10.00 for general admission, $15.00 for general admission and reception following the play. Call the Gem Theater Box office at 816-474-8463 for ticket information.

Anne & Emmett is an imaginary conversation between Anne Frank and Emmett Till, both victims of racial intolerance and hatred. Frank is the 13-year-old Jewish girl whose diary provided a gripping perspective of the Holocaust. Till is the 14-year old African-American boy whose brutal murder in Mississippi sparked the American Civil Rights Movement.

The one-act play opens with the two teenagers meeting in Memory, a place that isolates them from the cruelty they experienced during their lifetime. The beyond-the-grave encounter draws the startling similarities between the two youths' harrowing experience and the atrocities against their respective race.

Anne & Emmett is staged in partnership with the Brown Foundation, NLBM, American Jazz Museum, Midwest Center for Holocaust Education, and the Jewish Community Relations Bureau/American Jewish Committee, on the occasion of the 56th Anniversary of the Brown v. Topeka landmark Supreme Court deciscion.

Special Thanks to corporate sponsors Sprint, Collective Brands, and BlueCross BlueShield of Kansas City.

To learn more about Anne & Emmett, link to: http://anneandemmett.com/