My favourte hobby is working at the community theatre. I help arrange performances within my community and we present it to the rest of the community for entertainment.
Oh how cool that is where pretty much everything is done by local community right?
Yes, everything is done by the community without any outside help, but sometimes we do have collaborations with neighboring communities. Rarely we do invited professional theatre artists to join us in our production. 
So is community theatre mainly for enjoyment as opposed to profits?
Yes, community theatres are for the enjoyment of the community. We are a non-profit business with large active memberships and a full-time professional staff :) 
Ok that helps me to understand it much better, thanks. What else can you tell me about community theatre?
members. It is used as a tool for social development, promoting ideas like gender equality, human rights, environment and democracy. Most of the community theatre practices have been developed based on the philosophy of education theorist Paulo Freire's approach of critical pedagogy in theatre and implementation techniques built by Augusto Boal, known as Theatre of the Oppressed. Freire's approach attempted to stimulate social change by encouraging the audience to build capacities for critical thinking through participation in active dialogue. The participants would identify issues of concerns and discuss possible solutions
Media quotes.
"So much of what good theatre is all about is giving everything you’ve got to a performance, passionately and without self-censorship. Shimmer…is the embodiment of these ideals. It is community theatre at its most enriching, both for the performers and the audience." Melbourne Times
"No, it wasn’t the MTC. But it was much, much better than any preconceptions of community would have had you believe. At shows end the packed audience gave rousing appreciation to all