“We want you to panic; we want you to act. You stole our future and we want it back.” With headbanging passion, the youth-driven cast of the new musical Dear Everything rocked it out at New York City’s Terminal 5, in a one-night concert in January, with a message for adults: Do something.

Dear Everything is a new piece from V-Day, the global activist network created by V (formerly Eve Ensler, author of The Vagina Monologues). This time, the cause extends from ending violence against women to reversing climate change. Originally staged in 2021 as Wild (A Musical Becoming) at Cambridge, Massachusetts’s American Repertory Theater, the newly rewritten show will hit four cities in a national tour of one-night-only performances, with community engagement led by climate activist Maya Penn at every stop: Atlanta (Sept. 25), Miami Beach (Sept. 28), Los Angeles (Sept. 30), and Salt Lake City (Oct. 3).

The creative team includes ART artistic director Diane Paulus, songwriter Justin Tranter and Caroline Pennell, contributions from performer Idina Menzel, and V herself. In addition to her famous monologues, coming up on their 30th anniversary next year, and V-Day, V helped found One Billion Rising, a global mass action to end gender-based violence; and City of Joy, which works to  help women devastated by sexual abuse in war zones. In raising consciousness about the intersections of violence and gender, V has been inspiring women theatremakers for decades. This new musical uprising continues this movement.