TRUTH VALUES Returns to New York City

Called "hilarious" by Wired, the award-winning hit show TRUTH VALUES: ONE GIRL'S ROMP THROUGH M.I.T.'S MALE MATH MAZE is also a serious exploration of the world of elite mathematics and the challenges women face in math and science. The story follows NYC Writer/Performer and "Recovering Mathematician" Gioia De Cari's adventures as a math Ph.D. student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Bewitched by the formal mathematical notion of Truth, she struggles with the clash of her personal reality in a world that is not binary.

Unexpected Theatre is pleased to present a special one-night engagement of this play in partnership with Columbia University School of Engineering, the City University of New York and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science. A discussion with noted STEM role model Maria Klawe (President of Harvey Mudd College and celebrated advocate for women in tech) will immediately follow the performance.

WHEN: Friday, March 23 at 8:00 PM

WHERE: Miller Theatre, 2960 Broadway at 116th Street, New York, NY. 1 Train to 116th Street. TICKETS: $35 general admission, $50 premium, $25 for groups. A limited number of tickets will be offered free to Columbia/Barnard students. Visit TruthValuesPlay.com.

After winning Best Solo Show at the New York International Fringe Festival, TRUTH VALUES has had great national success, having been presented at 50+ venues in the U.S., including sold-out shows at the La Jolla Playhouse Potiker Theatre, The Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, The Lied Center, Central Square Theater in Cambridge, MA, Ensemble Studio Theatre in New York, and many others.

• Should labs be single-sex to spare male scientists the distraction of women crying when criticized, and the temptation to fall in love with them, as Nobel Laureate Tim Hunt proposed?
• Are women inherently inferior to men in math and science, as Lawrence Summers, former President of Harvard, suggested?
• Must women have faith rather than ask for a pay raise, as Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO, advised?
• Do women continue to drop out of the STEM fields because they just can't cut it in highly competitive work environments, as recently put forward by the far-right media?

Come to Truth Values and see for yourself!