Theater is where society comes together to share imaginations, to share stories, and ultimately - both audience and artists - share ourselves with each other.

We need theater now more than ever because we’re growing apart as a culture. We live in niches, we consume, vote, love, in niches, we’re even marketed to in niches. We live less in the present - in crowds, during parties, even on dates, we stop engaging in the immediate so that we can text or email or answer our cell. And we’re growing desensitized - to violence, to love, to each other.

Theater combats these forces by bringing us together - theater makes us more imaginative, present and more emphatic. When else but theater, funerals and weddings do we turn off our phones and blackberries, sit next to strangers, be fully present, practice listening to other people and imagining with the person next to us?

But we’re losing our theater habit - skyrocketing ticket prices have walled off a generation of theatergoers, theater companies have stumbled in meeting our cultures changing needs, and theater and arts educationare disappearing from our communities and our schools. We’re losing generations of audiences and artists.

We think it’s essential to change that. We’re starting now and we hope you can join us.