Inspired by the erotic story “Teibele And Hurmizah” by Isaac Bashevis Singer, Johns Hopkins University student Tamar Nachmany has adapted the story into a play that incorporates a congruous mix of ...

The National Yiddish Theatre-Folksbiene is 95 years old, but you’d never guess it from its buoyantly fresh new musical “The Adventures of Hershele Ostropolyer.” Based on an old Yiddish play and ...

More than the artistic peak of “The Dybbuk” or the moving tragicomedy of “Tevye the Dairyman,” another play from Yiddish theater repertoire has never failed to enchant theatergoers in Israel in the ...

One hundred years since first spooking audiences in Eastern Europe, S. An-Sky’s “The Dybbuk” has possessed Zoom and YouTube. Even if you are, like me, “oysgezoomt,”(i.e. suffering from Zoom fatigue), ...

When audience members start taking their seats to see Broadway's Indecent, the actors are already sitting at the back of the stage. Eventually, the lights go down and the performers begin a ghostly ...

“The Gospel According to Chaim” is billed as the first full-length Yiddish drama written in the United States in 70 years. (New York Jewish Week) — The true story of a formerly Hasidic Baltimore man ...

One of the early revelations in Paula Vogel’s acclaimed, based-on-a-true-story one-act drama is just how far and for how long God of Vengeance, Polish-Jewish author Sholem Asch’s controversial 1907 ...

When God of Vengeance first premiered in English on Broadway in 1923, the entire cast was brought to court on charges of indecency for featuring a lesbian kiss—a Broadway first. The prolific ...

Mirele Efros (Valerie Leonard), with her sons and daughter-in-law (L-R: Charlie Trepany, Healy Knight, Christopher Warren) in The Jewish Queen Lear. (C. Stanley Photography) Last year, Theater J ...

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