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Our Gala
Spring Gala: A Staged Affair
Bet Ha’am’s annual Spring Gala, A Staged Affair, will be held on Saturday, June 1, 2024. This in-person and virtual event will be a wonderful evening of socializing and entertainment showcasing dramatic readings of six ten-minute Jewish plays from across the nation. The event will start at 6:45 with Havdalah and then at 7:00 there will be a social hour with cash bar and passed hors d’oeuvres. The evening’s program begins at 8:00 with a break for dessert. Our raffle drawing will conclude the evening.
There are several ways for you to support A Staged Affair. The Host Committee is made up of people who contribute the seed money for the event with a fully tax deductible donation of $250. Host Committee members will be named and thanked in Gala email blasts and the event program and will receive two complimentary event tickets. We are also asking our dedicated supporters to be part of the virtual Head Table with an extra $250 donation to help offset the cost of the catering. Members of the combined Head Table and Host Committee will receive 4 complimentary tickets for the event.
This year’s event tickets will be $50 per individual and $100 per couple. Zoom household virtual tickets are $36.
We are also featuring our Spring Gala Raffle which will be done differently this year. For $118 you can purchase a 1/100 chance for a $4,000 cash prize and for $18 you can purchase an unlimited chance for a $1000 cash prize.
The Event Committee is hoping that you will choose to generously support A Staged Affair. Last year we raised $25,000 for Bet Ha’am programming and we hope to do as well if not better this year.
Please click the button below to become part of the Host Committee, to order event tickets and to purchase raffle tickets for A Staged Affair, June 1, 2024. We hope to see you there!
Michael Levine and Catherine Share
A Staged Affair Event Coordinators
2024 Spring Gala: A Staged Affair Plays
Bubbie’s Best, by Melinda Gros
In the aftermath of the Hamas attacks of October 7th, two Jewish cousins consider how – and even if they should – reposition their soon-to-open kosher bakery to appear less Jewish on social media.
Moses Never Had to Make a Brisket, by Rachel Leighson
When Aviva struggles to make her first Seder after her mother’s death, it might take an ancestral visitor to give her the strength she needs. A story of grief, love, laughter through tragedy, and the power of good food.
Powerless, by Dana Leslie Goldstein
Amy needs help caring for her grandfather. But her grandfather is pretty sure that she needs more help than he does. Their conflict takes an unexpected turn in this intergenerational superhero origin story.
Rosa & Leo, by Adam Szudrich
Five decades after secretly falling in love in a Nazi concentration camp, Rosa and Leo rediscover each other on opposite sides of the world.
The Bridge of Her Nose, by Christine Benvenuto
A former Israeli intelligence officer relives a traumatic event from his army service in a meeting with a woman who sometimes speaks as his wife, and also might be his therapist, his confessor, a voice inside his head, or the Palestinian woman whose death he describes.
The Good Dybbuk, by David Lipschutz
When a young man goes to clean out his grandparents’ attic, he discovers more than he expected.