Heterosexual actors like Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Kevin Bacon, Jaime Lee Curtis, and Martin Sheen and gay actors like Jane Lynch, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and Matthew Morrison came together over the weekend to perform a reading of Academy Award-winning writer Dustin Lance Black's gay-marriage play, 8. Directed by acclaimed actor and director Rob Reiner (AKA Meathead), it's an almost verbatim account of the case filed by the American Federation for Equal Rights (AFER ) in the U.S. District Court in 2010 to overturn Proposition 8, the California constitutional amendment that squashed the rights of same-sex couples to marry.

Performed Saturday at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles, 8 centers around the the trial's historic closing arguments on June 2010 and "provides an intimate look what unfolded when the issue of same-sex marriage was on trial." The real-life couples in the case—Sandy Stier (Curtis) and Kris Perry (Christine Lahti), and Jeff Zarillo (Matt Bomer) and Paul Katami (Morrison)—and the attorneys—David Boies (Clooney) and Theodore B. Olson (Sheen)—were all in the audience Saturday night, as were director Brett " 'Rehearsing Is for Fags" Ratner, designer Diane Von Furstenberg, and Clooney's wrestler girlfriend, Stacy Keibler.

Black decided to make the play after proponents successfully petitioned to block cameras from the courtroom. Watch 8 below (skip to 18:00 to get things rolling):