Yiddish Book Center Will Launch Major New Core Exhibition In October
by Stephi Wild
- Jun 14, 2023
This fall, the Yiddish Book Center presents a major new core exhibition that explores a multi-faceted international story of identity, creativity, migration, and belonging. Yiddish: A Global Culture debuts on October 15, 2023, expanding the Center's scope to include the world's first comprehensive museum of modern Yiddish culture.
TNC Presents New Yiddish Rep In DI FROYEN" (THE WOMEN) This January
by A.A. Cristi
- Dec 21, 2021
From January 22-30, Theater for the New City will present the New Yiddish Rep's production of 'Di Froyen' (The Women), based on the play 'Women's Minyan' by Naomi Ragen, adapted for the Yiddish Rep by Melissa Weisz and Malky Goldman. Director is Rachel Botchan. The play is a one-act drama of an abused Orthodox Jewish wife who is being kept from her children.
Photo Coverage: INDECENT Ends a Memorable Run at the Bluebarn Theatre
by Christine Swerczek
- Apr 15, 2019
Bluebarn Theatre ended a highly successful run of Paula Vogel's INDECENT yesterday in Omaha. The play relates the controversial production of Sholem Asch's play 'God of Vengeance' on Broadway in 1923. The cast of the original Broadway production was arrested on the grounds of obscenity. Bluebarn with its cast and crew magnificently turned out one of the most beautifully produced plays in Omaha.
BWW Review: Dazzling and Uplifting INDECENT at Center Stage
by Jack L. B. Gohn
- Mar 8, 2019
Indecent is about the power of theater to dazzle and uplift. Playwright Vogel has discussed plays that make the hair stand up on her neck. That is exactly what Indecent does: makes the hairs stand up on the back of the neck, and we may be at a loss to explain.
BWW Review: INDECENT at Center Stage
by Jack L. B. Gohn
- Mar 11, 2019
Paula Vogel's 2015 play Indecent, in a production now arrived at Center Stage after stops at D.C.'s Arena Stage and the Kansas City Rep, is a staggering tour de force of playwriting prowess that is also a tour of a largely forgotten world: international Yiddish theater shortly after the turn of the last century. A play about a play about a play, it follows Sholem Asch's God of Vengeance on a circular path, from Lodz, Poland in 1906 to Warsaw, to various stages in Europe, through Ellis Island and various New York theaters, culminating with an abortive stay on Broadway, and thence back to Lodz once more, at the peak of the Holocaust. And then, in a sort of coda, it concludes in Connecticut with the last days of Mr. Asch. All these parts are contained within an initial framing device in which, like Pseudolus in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, a stage manager named Lemml (Ben Cherry), introduces the players and musicians, apparently members of a turn-of-the-century Yiddish theater troupe, and identifies the kinds of parts they will play (like male and female Ingenues). Everything that follows, i.e. a play about presenting a play, is presented as a play performed by this troupe.
Center for Jewish History Announces MONISH: A MUSICAL TALE OF TALMUD & TEMPTATION
by Julie Musbach
- Nov 19, 2018
Cornell's Jewish Studies Program, the Center for Jewish History, and the YIVOInstitute for Jewish Research present "Monish: A Musical Tale of Talmud and Temptation" set to rhyming English verse. Inspired by I.L. Peretz's classic Yiddish poem "Monish," this lively humorous musical performance by the award-winning Big Galut(e) Jewish Music Ensemble will be held at the Center for Jewish History on Monday, December 3rd, at 6:30 p.m.
Frank London's Theatre-Concert MARKETPLACE Jolts to Life in May
by BWW News Desk
- Apr 6, 2017
After being presented by John Schaefer and WNYC's New Sounds Live at the Merkin Concert Hall, and then traveling the world, the iconoclastic post-modern musical oratorio, "A Night at the Old Marketplace," returns to New York for the premiere of an enhanced full-length version fusing music, projections and storytelling.
Courtroom Drama DISINHERIT THE WIND Challenges Scientific Status Quo
by BWW
News Desk
- Mar 3, 2017
How can we understand and contextualize new information challenging what we take for granted as scientific fact? Disinherit the Wind, a play of ideas by Matt Chait that asks us to view the wonders of science through a different lens, opens March 3 at The Complex on Hollywood's Theater Row.
Courtroom Drama DISINHERIT THE WIND Challenges Scientific Status Quo
by A.A. Cristi
- Jan 24, 2017
How can we understand and contextualize new information challenging what we take for granted as scientific fact? Disinherit the Wind, a play of ideas by Matt Chait that asks us to view the wonders of science through a different lens, opens March 3 at The Complex on Hollywood's Theater Row.
Target Margin Theatre Launches BEYOND THE PALE Season in November
by Nicole Rosky
- Oct 15, 2013
Target Margin Theater (David Herskovits, Artistic Director; John Del Gaudio, Artistic Producer) culminates theirjourney into the exploration of Yiddish theater with an upcoming season of extraordinary literature from the West's great unknown culture. The themed two-year series, Beyond the Pale, includes staged productions, one-time events, concerts, installations, panel discussions, and a reading series of new translations.
Target Margin Theater and The Brick Present TNT LAB: EXPLORING YIDDISH THEATER, Now thru 11/3
by BWW News Desk
- Oct 17, 2012
Target Margin Theater, in association with Brooklyn's The Brick in Williamsburg, launches its 2012-13 season with their annual TMT Lab: Exploring Yiddish Theater curated by TMT Artistic Producer John Del Gaudio. TMT's Lab offers a sampler of works from the canon of Yiddish Theater, to remind us all how diverse and sophisticated Yiddish culture was, and how great its loss.
Target Margin Theater and The Brick Present TNT LAB: EXPLORING YIDDISH THEATER, 10/17-11/3
by BWW News Desk
- Sep 13, 2012
Target Margin Theater, in association with Brooklyn's The Brick in Williamsburg, launches its 2012-13 season with their annual TMT Lab: Exploring Yiddish Theater curated by TMT Artistic Producer John Del Gaudio. TMT's Lab offers a sampler of works from the canon of Yiddish Theater, to remind us all how diverse and sophisticated Yiddish culture was, and how great its loss.
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