Emerging Artists Create Surprising New ‘Homes’ for Original Theatre What’s NEXT?

It’s the name of a group of emerging artists who will create theatre in a thrift shop in Studio City, a fabric store in Venice, a Downtown art gallery and five other LA venues from June 8 to 18.  Eight productions of The Way Home, NEXT’s original salon-style show will travel throughout the city to showcase a new generation of emerging artists who create theatre that speaks to all generations.

NEXT, now in its third year, is a professional development fellowship program from Jewish Women’s Theatre (JWT).  Each year, a group of emerging artists are selected from a competitive applicant pool. The fellows then select a theme and invite the Los Angeles community to submit stories, poems, plays, musical works and art around that theme. NEXT fellows then collaborate to curate, cast, direct, and produce an original show and companion art exhibit over a nine-month period.

This year’s theme, captured by the title The Way Home, was assembled from the best of over 80 story submissions from aspiring and professional writers who were asked to theatrically explore what ‘home” means to them.

Tickets for The Way Home are $18 and may be purchased at bit.ly/wayhometix.

For more information please visit: www.jewishwomenstheatre.org or call 310.315.1400.

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Performances will take place in Downtown LA, Santa Monica, Reseda, Fairfax/Melrose, Venice, Studio City and Silverlake. The Santa Monica performances on Sunday, June 9 and Saturday, June 15 will be at The Braid, JWT’s art and performance space in Santa Monica, and will include opportunities to view a NEXT-curated exhibit featuring paintings, sculpture and other displays by emerging artists whose work expresses The Way Home theme.