What makes a community? What consrtucts it, holds it together, keeps the joints oiled and the wheels rolling?
The sum is always greater than its parts. In this case, the Jerusalem English Theater Community is made up of people, people who love theater in all of its forms. There are auditions, rehearsals, shows, tickets, cast parties, and hundreds of other points in between that make up what we all do, not to mention the social gatherings, late nights at rehearsal, meals together, creative ideas, learning, mentoring, laughter, sweat, tears…
For a while now, Charles B Davies and I have been dreaming. How to help everyone do what they do better? How to make things works more effeciently? Make deeper connections? Help theater companies have more impact? Reach more audience? Share resources? Save money?
And because we’re a community, we can’t do this without all of you. The community is what brings us together, so it only makes sense that the community sets its own goals that we can (hopefully) put into practice.
So help us take the next step for the Jerusalem English speaking Theater Community by filling out this amazing survey (with much thanks to Lauri Donahue, as well as to our superb interns Nechama Morgenstern and Paula Ungar)! This will help us get a better idea of the wants, needs, and goals of the community so that we can plan to develop infrastructure, projects, and resources that will benefit all community members.
It takes less than 5 minutes (really) and it can really make a difference.
Due to Coronavirus – 19 we will be posting ways to see, read, or think about theater online during the social distancing era. We still encourage you to call friends, Facetime, Skype, Zoom, and create with your neighbors.
If you haven’t seen the new Apple family play that takes place entirely on Zoom produced by the Public Theater, well what are you waiting for? This is what theater may look like for some time. But if you just want to see other recorded theater onstage then go to THIRTEEN (link above) and you can see some plays including, until May 5th, the earlier plays of the Apple family and the Gabriel family.
John Krasinski started a special Youtube Channel news channel. He’s calling it Some Good News. It is heartwarming, funny, and filled with what is good in the world.
You can see Broadway and West End shows. Classics and some newbies on BroadwayHD.com. They are offering a free 7 day trial. Some part of me hopes they extend their free trial along with some other streaming services that I anticipate may do the same.
CBDB Productions pivoted to virtual theater during COVID – 19 and some of the productions that have been done are up on its Youtube channel.
Virtual Readings Happening:
If we missed anything let us know. There are 100s of ideas and options out there and we would love to hear from all of you at jerusalemenglishtheater@gmail.com
