"They Came to America"
Five Completely Different  Shows

Each Character Show is performed multiple times at a variety of venues, days and times. 

See all five shows.  Or follow a Character to several different locations.  No two shows are ever the same  - because it's Interactive Theater, with audience participation!

The Winston Churchill Shows

Winston Churchill’s father was a British aristocrat and leading politician; his mother was an American.  As World War II swept across Europe and closer and closer to the British shores, it turned the bleak despair of the British people into determined resolve.  With the home front in critical danger, Churchill reached across the Atlantic to America for support. Never were Churchill's political talents so tested as when he successfully rallied the support of an isolationist America.

more about . . . Churchill

The Golda Meir Shows

Golda Meir, came to America as a child of 8 when her family fled Russian pogroms.  She left to work on a Kibbutz in Palestine.  Just before the 1948 war she was chosen to go to America to raise funds for the Zionist cause. In a few days she raised $50 million. Ben-Gurion called Meir "the woman who got the money which made the state possible.” In the new state of Israel she served as Labor Minister and Foreign Minister before becoming the fourth Prime Minister of Israel. Richard Nixon commented to her that both Israel and the U.S. had Jewish "Foreign Ministers." Yes, she responded, but mine speaks English.

more about . . . Golda Meir

The Carl Jung Shows

Carl Jung came to America for the first time together with Sigmund Freud.  His relationship with Freud came apart over the interpretation of dreams.  In Jung’s own dreams and in the dreams of his patients, he began to recognize stories and images found in the mythology and religious traditions of the whole human race. Jung read ancient and medieval mythology, and he traveled to places where traditional shamans still practiced the arts of soul healing. On a visit to the Taos Pueblo in New Mexico he discussed dreams with a Hopi elder, Ochwiay Biano or Mountain Lake.

more about . . . Carl Jung

The Denmark Vesey Shows

Denmark Vesey was a seasoned world traveler when he arrived in Charleston, a black seaman slave on his master's ship.  Winning the lottery, he purchased his freedom and became a successful businessman, but could not reconcile being a free man in a slave world.  He master-minded an 1822 Charleston slave uprising only to have it suppressed.  100 African Americans were tried.  Vesey and 34 others were hanged, 2 died, and 40 sold.  Charleston and the South were changed forever as America drew closer to Civil War.   

more about . . . Denmark Vesey

The Falls Park America's Stories Show

Oba King, the Poetic Storyteller invites you to Falls Park - one night only - June 22 - for a celebration of America through story and music and dance.  The Native America Great Eagle inspires us to dance and soar.  African American tales drum power into our hearts.  And Old Testament stories fill us with the grace of love.  Sometime in our not so distant past, we all "Came to America" - these are all our stories.

more about . . . The America's Stories Show