Adam Theater, founded by Convisero mentor Ran Bechor, is a one-of-a-kind professional theater company producing plays exclusively for kids and young adults. Our immersive plays speak directly to our young audiences’ growing minds — in a language they can understand, with stories they can relate to. Through our work, we’re helping kids and teens find their voice, discover their identity, and experience the magic of the theater.
Our inaugural play “Library Lion” is set to premiere as a site-specific play September 2024 in the Boston Public Library. The musical play’s adaptation, by playwright Eli Bijaoui, is based on one of Time Magazine’s 100 Best Children's Books of All Times, by Michelle Knudsen, set to music by Yoni Rechter. Lion puppet design & build by The Jim Henson Company.
Established, May 2023 Boston based Adam Theater is a non-profit 501(c)3 professional theater offering a repertoire of plays for young audiences and families.
The pillars of Adam Theater | So Much More than Child’s Play
Contemporary Theatre - A theater that constantly questions its relevance and strives to emphasize live performance and the direct encounter between art and its audience.
To present high quality art to children and their families. Our professional theatrical productions stimulate our audiences’ growing minds — we elevate them, nurturing the maturity they have within. And in the process, we set them on a path of self discovery, helping them tell their own story, with themselves at the center of it.
Education & Family - Through stories, fairy tales, and live performances, a child learns to decipher their culture and self, formulating their own personal hero's journey. Adam Theater is a theater for the entire family; it invites families to come and watch together artworks that will serve as a common fictional world for the family and the community, through which it is possible to generate a conversation about everyday life, culture, and ethical questions.
Hebrew Culture - Everything ever written in Hebrew. Hebrew culture is based on Jewish tradition, but interprets it through modern, secular, and universal lenses. During the 18th century in Europe, there was the start of the Hebrew culture renaissance, great emphasis was placed on the narrative and the point of view of the other (not necessarily Jewish). Therefore the roots of this culture carries within it universal values. In order to introduce Hebrew Culture into the American mainstream, we are intentionally seeking and creating collaborations with known American cultural brands, and institutions. Thus, The Boston Public Library and Jim Henson Company are under the same umbrella as S.Y. Agnon and Yoni Rechter. The combination of American culture with Hebrew culture is key to breaking through the cultural glass ceiling placing Hebrew culture front and center in mainstream America.
Vision | Open Curtains, Opening Minds
Educate generations of children in the Boston area, and beyond, for the love of theater as high quality art, storytelling, and universal democratic values. Direct exposure to ethical questions allows children freedom of thought and choice.