The Adam Theater 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.
*Adam Theater is a non-profit 501(c)3 EIN # 92-3415408
Library Lion || Opening: September 2024
Based on one of the 100 Best Children's Books of All Times, by Time Magazine .
LIBRARY LION written by Michelle Knudsen and illustrated by Kevin Hawkes. Adapted into a massive successful musical play by the renowned playwright Eli Bijaoui. Music by Yoni Rechter.
Lion Puppet by Jim Henson's Creature Shop
In the library, there are books. But also very clear rules: no shouting, no running, no eating or drinking. But what happens when one day a lion enters the library? He doesn't roar or rampage, and contrary to expectations, he peacefully joins storytelling hour. Not everyone is okay with this, after all, he doesn't abide by the rules. (A lion? In the library? – that's completely out of order!) It will be revealed that rules are important to follow, but not only that: That it is also very important, to dust off some of these rule books as well.
Prepare for a theatrical experience that will roar its way into your heart. Don't miss this enchanting adaptation, where stories come alive and where even the wildest of guests might just find a place to belong.
Support for our inaugural production, Library Lion, has been generously given from The Krupp Foundation.
The production has been awarded the CJP Community Impact Grant, and the City of Boston Youth Development Grant. It is endorsed by the Boston Public Library.
LIBRARY LION. Text copyright © 2006 by Michelle Knudsen. Illustrations copyright © 2006 by Kevin Hawkes. Reproduced by permission of the publisher, Candlewick Press, Somerville, MA. Adapted into a massive successful play with songs by Eli Bijaoui.
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Uncle Max’ Journey || Season 2025
A play for children in rhymes with wonderful lyrics set to music by the renowned Israeli song writer Yoni Rechter. The play is a reworking of a short children’s novel by the distinguished Israeli playwright Hanoch Levin.
The play tells of a family whose father was drafted to the army to fight in the war, leaving the mother to attend to their young and only son. The boy deeply misses his father, spendings long hours daily at the window, waiting for him to return. Every night in bed, dreaming, he finds himself in a fantastic world, where he meets fictitious characters.
Along the journey, he wakes up to help his mother and to check whether his father has already come back.
Max’ travels across lands, seasons, imaginary worlds and harsh reality. This is a play for the whole family, depicting the tension between the fighting on the front to the hardships back home, between the coping of a growing-up child to the struggle of the aging adults, between theater and circus and between audience and stage.
*translation of song from Hebrew to English || Donny Inbar
Meet our Founders
Ran Bechor | Artistic Director
Ran Bechor an educator, Hebrew playwright and theater director. For the past two years, he was the principal of a school for the gifted in Jerusalem. In 2016 Ran was awarded first place at the Akko Fringe Theater Festival for his play Schreber . Ran had previously initiated and managed an Arabic language school through theater. He is a former fellow of the Mandel school for educational leadership. He holds a graduate degree in philosophy and theater and a master’s degree in sociology and anthropology, earned at Tel Aviv University. This has led to his appointment as a lecturer in the department of social studies. In addition to his deep knowledge of Hebrew culture, he currently teaches Hebrew language & culture and the NELC department at Harvard University.
Karin Sharav Zalkind | Executive Director
Karin Sharav Zalkind, founding principle and creative director of NoBox Studio is an Israeli born designer, with design experience in the fields of commercial and residential interior design. Karin is an ICA New England Council member, former board of directors of Friends of Educating for Excellence (E4E). Has been part of the Workplace Innovation Think Tank and Impact Society at Design Museum Everywhere. Karin, Associate IIDA, is a Graduate of the Interior Architecture department at “Ascola Design Academy”, Tel-Aviv, Israel, and received a BFA from the Environmental Design department at Massachusetts College of Art & Design, Boston, USA.