Uber Alles at St. Luke's Theatre

Olympics Über Alles tells the story of the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, when Jewish-American runners Marty Glickman and Sam Stoller became victims of hate-mongering. As Jesse Owens made the news, Marty and Sam, on the same U.S. track team, seemingly went unnoticed, while American and Nazi officials apparently conspired to bar them from the race of their lives. Why were these two young men denied the opportunity to compete? Olympics Über Alles follows a Jewish professor and a Catholic museum curator who hope to answer that question, amid some murky Olympic history and the meaning of their own relationship. In this evocative new play, politics, religion, sports, relationships and the roots of World War II come face-to-face in a theatrical whirlwind that will challenge and inspire.