Yelena Shmulenson News

Once a staple of the popular Yiddish stage, Isaac Zolotarevsky's legendary 1910 melodrama GELT, LIBE, UN SHANDE will be presented this Monday, February 6th at 7 PM at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in a new English translation by writer/director Allen Lewis Rickman under the title MONEY, LOVE, AND SHAME!

Once a staple of the popular Yiddish stage, Isaac Zolotarevsky's legendary 1910 melodrama Gelt, Libe, Un Shande will be presented on Monday, February 6th at 7 PM at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in a new English translation by writer/director Allen Lewis Rickman under the title MONEY, LOVE, AND SHAME! This one-night-only event will feature two-time Drama Desk Award winner Everett Quinton (The Mystery of Irma Vep, Camille, Natural Born Killers, Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella), Samantha Maurice (Much Ado About Nothing, The Grasshopper Way, The Winter's Tale), Allen Lewis Rickman ("Boardwalk Empire," "You Don't Know Jack," A Serious Man, Relatively Speaking), Yelena Shmulenson ("Boardwalk Empire," "Orange is the New Black," "The Knick"), Kevin Sebastian("Blue Bloods," "Bull," Goyband), Jacqueline Sydney (Filmic Achievement, The Prom Queen, Confess), and Kraig Swartz (A Picture of Autumn, Donogoo, So Help Me God!)  MONEY, LOVE, AND SHAME! will be directed by Allen Lewis Rickman, with piano accompaniment by Steve Sterner (25 years as house pianist at Film Forum, where he accompanies classic silent movies with his own scores).

Once a staple of the popular Yiddish stage, Isaac Zolotarevsky's legendary 1910 melodrama Gelt, Libe, Un Shande will be presented on Monday, February 6th

Isle of Klezbos and Eve Sicular are proud to announce their New York City debut engagement of J. EDGAR KLEZMER: Songs from my Grandmother's FBI Files at HERE (145 Sixth Ave) for five shows only this weekend, June 4 - June 7. J. EDGAR KLEZMER is a musical documentary theater adventure, researched and written by grandchild and bandleader Eve Sicular (Isle of Klezbos / Metropolitan Klezmer).

Isle of Klezbos and Eve Sicular are proud to announce their New York City debut engagement of J. EDGAR KLEZMER: Songs from my Grandmother's FBI Files at HERE (145 Sixth Ave) for five shows only from June 4 - June 7. J. EDGAR KLEZMER is a musical documentary theater adventure, researched and written by grandchild and bandleader Eve Sicular (Isle of Klezbos / Metropolitan Klezmer).

New Yiddish Rep is presenting the US premiere of 'Making Stalin Laugh,' British playwright David Schneider's dark comedy that details the events leading up to the chilling silencing by Stalin of the revered Yiddish actor Solomon Mikhoels. Directed by Allen Lewis Rickman, the developmental workshop production plays an exclusive two-night engagement at Theatre 80, 80 St. Marks Place in the East Village, Sunday and Monday May 17 and 18, both at 7pm. The production's multi-lingual cast includes Israeli television star Gera Sandler (as Mikhoels), and Yelena Shmulenson ('A Serious Man').

Lost & Found Project, an edgy ensemble of next generation storytellers, curates a world premiere of KNOCK: A Journey to a Strange Country, a new play inspired by writings of the Russian avant-garde absurdist Daniil Kharms. KNOCK is written and presented by the award-winning Lost & Found Project, a division of National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene (NYTF) FolksbieneRU. Eleven performances will be staged at The Players Theatre, 115 MacDougal Street, in New York, N.Y., from March 4-22, 2015.

It's time to close up CSC's third annual Black Box Festival with the show that played to sold out audiences in last year's New York Fringe Festival. The Essence: A Yiddish Theatre Dim Sum is a rollicking comedy that lets audiences in on the best kept secret-Yiddish is actually cool-and it's playing November 21-24 in the Kutz Theatre of the Lackland Center. The Essence… is a fast-moving revue for people who know nothing about Yiddish and couldn't imagine attending a show with Yiddish in it. It's about the most expressive and theatrical language in the world, with scenes, sketches, songs, and oddball diversions with an irreverent introduction to all things Yiddish.

La Mama E.T.C. presents the musical The Golem of Havana, a production of Columbia Stages, Palo de Agua and Theater of the Americas, now through September 8, 2013 at its downtown home (74 East 4th Street, between Bowery and Second Avenue, Subway: F/M to Second Avenue). Michel Hausmann wrote the book and directs the production, which has music by Salomon Lerner and lyrics by Len Schiff. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!

La MaMa E.T.C. will present the musical The Golem of Havana, a production of Columbia Stages, Palo de Agua and Theater of the Americas, August 28 through September 8, 2013 at its downtown home (74 East 4th Street, between Bowery and Second Avenue, Subway: F/M to Second Avenue). Michel Hausmann wrote the book and will direct the production, which has music by Salomon Lerner and lyrics by Len Schiff.

Last night some of New York's most gifted singers, comedians, and novelty performers will bring 2nd Avenue and the Lower East Side of a century ago back to side-splitting, tear-jerking life in "You Don't Have to Speak Yiddish to Understand the Truth!" Playing the Metropolitan Room, 34 West 22nd Street, for one night only, this star-infested revue is produced by Media Blitz Entertainment, and hosted by the biggest star in Yiddish vaudeville today, the emcee Shane Baker. BroadwayWorld brings you photos from the event below!

Tonight, August 8 at 9:30PM some of New York's most gifted singers, comedians, and novelty performers will bring 2nd Avenue and the Lower East Side of a century ago back to side-splitting, tear-jerking life! Playing the Metropolitan Room, 34 West22nd Street, for one night only, "You Don't Have to Speak Yiddish to Understand the Truth" is produced by Media Blitz Entertainment, and hosted by master of ceremonies Shane Baker.

On Wednesday August 8 at 9:30PM some of New York's most gifted singers, comedians,and novelty performers will bring 2nd Avenue and the Lower East Side of a century ago back to side-splitting, tear-jerking life! Playing the Metropolitan Room, 34 West22nd Street, for one night only, "You Don't Have to Speak Yiddish to Understand the Truth" is produced by Media Blitz Entertainment, and hosted by master of ceremonies Shane Baker.

The Brooklyn Phil, local Russian artists, and legendary Soviet animation studio Soyuzmultfilm team up to bring 70 years of great Russian animation back to the big screen and onto the concert stage for the first time.

In Al Grand's zesty and fun Yiddish translation of Gilbert and Sullivan's classic, young Frederick is a former Yeshiva student and the Major General is an Orthodox Jew who bakes fine honey cakes and is a friend of Benjamin Disraeli.