Playwright Heidi Schreck’s boundary-breaking play breathes new life into the U.S. Constitution and imagines how it will shape the next generation of Americans. Fifteen-year-old Heidi earned her college tuition by winning Constitutional debate competitions across the United States. In this hilarious, hopeful and achingly human new play, she resurrects her teenage self in order to trace the profound relationship between four generations of women and the founding document that shaped their lives.
What the Constitution Means to Me premiered off-Broadway at the
New York Theatre Workshop on September 12, 2018. The play opened on
Broadway at the Helen Hayes Theatre on March 31, 2019. Initially
announced for a 12-week engagement, the Broadway production extended
twice and fully recouped its investment, shattering box office records,
for a total run of 24 weeks. Following Broadway, What the Constitution Means to Me
played a record-breaking limited engagement run at the Eisenhower
Theater at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in
Washington, D.C., as well as two sit-down engagements in Los Angeles and
Chicago before halting performances due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The
national tour of What the Constitution Means to Me will resume in September 2021.