Voices International Theatre Festival Jersey City Theater Center presents the 2nd annual Voices International Theatre Festival from Friday October 16 to Sunday October 25 , a unique hybrid of virtual and live events featuring the work of 21 groundbreaking theatre companies from Europe , Eastern Europe , South Asia , Asia , the Middle East , Africa and NY-NJ . The festival ’ s opening ceremony on Sunday October 18 is a specially designed , socially distanced liveassembly gathering in Liberty State Park in Jersey City , combining both live and virtual elements , including classes during the afternoon and a performance-ceremony broadcast live at 6:00pm EST . The 2020 Voices International Theatre Festival showcases daring and thematically provocative multi-disciplinary work that has been curated to offer festivalgoers a deeply stimulating crosssection of ethnic , racial , gender and political perspectives . Among the notable companies and art-