Theatre
From live plays, to digital performances, to the first all-live professional Zoom play produced in the pandemic (click here to read our coverage from American Theatre Magazine), theatre at St. Andrew’s is a way of connecting, exploring the questions and issues of what it means to be human, and sharing the journey with others.
We love to create our own performances as well as go to the theatre together!
Watch our weekly announcements for opportunities to participate or attend performances (online and in-person) and share discussion afterwards.
Before the pandemic, the St. Andrew’s Players presented live plays inside our sanctuary. While that tradition continues, we also creatively experiment with outdoor and online performances. We welcome all people with a love of theatre to be part of our productions, and we actively use theatre and the arts to create opportunities for connection and conversation in our wider community.
Since the pandemic, parishioner Gary Sloan gathered the St . Andrew’s Players, a group of actors who are both amateur and professional, members of the church and members of the wider community. Our first official production was Thornton Wilder’s one act play, The Long Christmas Dinner, which was performed on Dec.11, 2023.
INTERFAITH PERFORMANCE
From Darkness Into Light, created in the midwinter of the pandemic, is an interfaith digital performance directed by parishioner Gary Sloan with members of St. Andrew’s and our long-time interfaith partners, the Zubaida Mosque and Congregation Kol-Emet. Blending poetry, music, monologues, and reflection, watch below for this reminder of the common hope across our faith traditions.
St. Andrew’s launched the first all-live, online Zoom play of the pandemic, King Lear, that showed it could be done and is credited with inspiring other professional and amateur productions that followed. The production took place on April 23, 2020 and raised thousands of dollars in donations for our local food pantry and other feeding programs across the country.
