Our Impact
The Annual John Lennon Tribute is a benefit for Theatre Within, a non-profit providing ongoing free workshops in creative expression and mindfulness, including the award-winning John Lennon Real Love Project, to communities in need.
Theatre Within currently serves the cancer community, public elementary schools and youth in crisis. Since the onset of the Covid 19 pandemic in March 2020, Theatre Within has provided over 600 free workshops — in songwriting, art, meditation and much more — for children who have lost a parent to cancer, adult cancer patients, survivors, and their family members.
In 2021, Theatre Within launched the John Lennon Real Love Project public elementary school program, which to date has been provided for ten schools. After learning about John Lennon’s life and music, students write new lyrics to “Real Love” and record their own version of the song with John Lennon’s original vocal and piano track.
In the most recent expansion of the John Lennon Real Love Project, Theatre Within brought the program to Covenant House, NY, a non-profit providing residential services to vulnerable, homeless, runaway and exploited youth.
Adult group at Gilda’s Club NYC (2018).
A child from the program’s launch at the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore in the Bronx (2014).
Sixth-graders at Livingston Manor Central School (2020).
Members of the first teen workshop at Gilda’s Club NYC (2015).
Adult group at Gilda’s Club NYC (2017).