Community Conversation Featured Playwrights from SJT’s Season

A speaker addresses an audience during a community conversation event, with three virtual panelists displayed on a large screen behind him.

Sarasota Jewish Theatre (SJT) presented its annual end-of-season Community Conversation on April 22 at Sarasota Art Museum. The event, which was moderated by SJT’s Associate Artistic Director Michael Raver, featured the playwrights of all three of the season’s Howard Millman Performance Series plays participating via Zoom. The event offered a wide-ranging and comprehensive discussion about the central ideas explored in the 2026 mainstage plays, with a focus on the thought-provoking issues raised, and the confluence of incidents in the plays to events that are happening in our country today. The participating playwrights were Clark Young (“Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski”), Charles Busch (“The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife”), and David Gow (“Cherry Docs”). Carole Kleinberg, SJT’s artistic director, said, “A live audience, an in-person moderator, and our special guests beamed in via Zoom for a conversation that feels both intimate and expansive at the beautiful Sarasota Art Museum – it was great!”