Salons
Regular gatherings of readings, performance, ideas, and conversation. New work is often heard aloud here for the first time, alongside published work, history, ritual, and the voices of the people gathered in the room.
Productions & Programs
What ritual theater looks like when it is being made.
Moments from our gatherings, salons, rehearsals, and performances. Short runs, matinees, talk-backs — and the particular electricity of a story finding its voice.
February 5–7, 2027 · Tucson, AZ
In Sarah's Tent
A ritual-theater work by Laurie S. Sherman.
- Fri · Feb 56:30 PMPreview
- Sat · Feb 63:00 PMMatinee
- Sat · Feb 66:30 PMEvening Performance
- Sun · Feb 76:30 PMFinal Performance
Biblical, legendary, historical, and contemporary women meet through monologue, dialogue, music, movement, ritual, and story. Written and created by Laurie S. Sherman. All performances at Live Theatre Workshop, Tucson. Performance schedule currently planned as listed; final confirmation forthcoming.
Programs
The work, in many forms.
Readings & Gatherings
Intimate readings and participatory programs in libraries, gardens, homes, community spaces, and cultural venues.
Productions
Original theatrical and ritual-theater works by Laurie S. Sherman, developed through readings, workshops, salons, and staged performances.
Books & Publishing
Plays, fiction, poetry, ritual, liturgy, and other writing published through Hineni Circle Press and related imprints.
Visiting Programs
Readings, performances, workshops, ritual experiences, and conversations created for theaters, libraries, schools, Jewish communities, arts organizations, and other gathering places.
The Seed Fund
For congregations, sisterhoods, women's reading groups, and other communities that want to perform a Hineni work: an honorarium rather than royalties, and the playwright, director, and cast glad to help with questions and suggestions. We would love to be invited.
Women of the Ages
Four thousand years of women's voices.
The women in Dr. Sherman's plays span four thousand years. These hand-drawn portraits appear throughout her monologue and play collections — from biblical heroines to twentieth-century scientists and activists.
Deborah
Yocheved
Esther
Judith
Anne Frank
Lise Meitner
Vera Rubin
Zivia Lubetkin
Helen Suzman
Glückel
Doña Gracia
Puah
Portrait artwork forthcoming. Send circle and production photos to Laurie@HineniProjectInc.org.