From the moment he’s mugged on the sub­way home from Yan­kee Sta­di­um, 12-year-old Adam Miller takes a deep dive into the big world. Adam is baf­fled by his fam­i­ly’s move to a new neigh­bor­hood, his edu­ca­tor-par­ents are reel­ing from the bit­ter Teach­ers Strike which pit­ted Jews against blacks, his syn­a­gogue is repeat­ed­ly van­dal­ized, his old­er broth­er becomes a Zion­ist mil­i­tant fight­ing to free Sovi­et Jew­ry, and Adam’s crazy new Can­tor has grandiose ambi­tions for Adam’s bar mitz­vah, despite Adam’s ​“skin­ny voice.” Adam is in the Spe­cial Pro­gram (SP) for brainy kids, but his junior high is spin­ning out of con­trol, he gets on the wrong side of a local gang, and his old friends aban­don him. Bewil­dered and alone, Adam finds solace on stage, as he dis­cov­ers the pow­er of the­ater to bridge social divides. Set in 1970 in Flush­ing, New York, Adam Unre­hearsed is a sto­ry of friend­ship and betray­al, stu­dents and men­tors, life, death, and act­ing. Buf­fet­ed by pol­i­tics he can bare­ly grasp, Adam learns to find his place and his voice.