Beyond the Stage, Lost In Yonkers

   

Audience Enrichment Events

Theater J offers a variety of programs to engage our audience beyond the stage.  Below is the current schedule of Artistic Director Roundtables, Peace Cafés and Cast Talk Backs. 

We can also develop additional programs tailored for your group to be held either here at the theater or we can bring the program to you. 

Contact Shirley Serotsky at (202) 777-3228 or email her with any further questions.

 

THESE ARE FREE DISCUSSIONS AND OPEN TO ALL

 

Thursday, October 22 at 9:45 pm:  Post Show Discussion  (Title TBA)

 

Sunday, October 25 at 5:15 pm -  

Theater J’s Artistic Roundtable Panel Series in conjunction with the First National J Street Conference presents:
Arts and Activism in Troubled Times: Can Culture Effect Change?

A panel made up of artists active in Middle East issues, as well as artists involved in social causes on a local, national, and international stage.

  • Noa Baum: Award-winning Israeli storyteller, educator, and consultant, Noa focuses on the power story-telling has to heal across the divides of identity.
  • Gidon Bromberg, Israeli Director of EcoPeace / Friends of the Earth Middle East (FoEME). FoEME is a unique regional organization that brings together Jordanian, Palestinian and Israeli environmentalists to promote sustainable development and advance peace efforts in the Middle East.
  • Patrick Crowley, Washington DC Theater Artist/Activist; director, playwright and performer
  • Jeremy Skidmore, Washington DC based director (Angels in America, Stuff Happens), former Producer of the Source Theatre Festival and former Artistic Airector of Theater Alliance
  • Patrick Bussink, Washington DC Theater Actor and Producer of Extreme Exchange

 

Thursday, October 29 at 9:45 pm:  Post Show Cast Talk Back

 

Sunday, November 1 at 5:15 pm: “Conversations with Neil Simon”: A talk with author Jackson Bryer

  • Jackson Bryer, author of the upcoming “Conversations with Neil Simon”; Professor, scholar, and arts writer, Dr. Bryer has interviewed Neil Simon multiple times over the span of his prolific career.

 

Sunday, November 8 at 5:15 pm: “Neil’s Women”: Women reflect on the women of LOST IN YONKERS

  • Faye Moskowitz, Professor of Jewish American Literature at George Washington University
  • Sarah Wallace, Associate Literary Manager/Dramaturg at The Studio Theatre
     

Sunday, November 15 at 5:15 pm: “Lost in Childhood”:  A look at parenting in LOST IN YONKERS and how childhood shapes the adult

  • Dr. David Scharff, Co-director of the International Psychotherapy Institute, and Vice-President of the International Association for Couple and Family Psychoanalysis

 

Thursday, November 19 at 9:45 pm:  Post Show Cast Talkback

 

 

Sunday, November 22 at 5:15 pm: Comedy Tonight: The Art of Crafting a Laugh, or, Everything I Ever Needed to Know about Comedy I Learned from Neil Simon

  • Allyson Curin, Washington, DC playwright and actress

 

Sunday, November 29 at 5:15 pm: We’re Coming to America!: The Experience of the (Jewish) Immigrant

  • Linda Raphael, English Professor at George Washington University, specializing in nineteenth- and twentieth-century American and British literature and Holocaust literature
  • Michele Osherow, Assistant Professor of English, Director of the Humanities Scholars Program, and Associate Director of the Dresher Center for the Humanities at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County
  • Dr. Alan M. Kraut, Professor of History at American University and the recent past president of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society, the largest organization of immigration scholars in the country. He also sits on the Academic Council of the American Jewish Historical Society.