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On Tuesday May 27th at 7 PM at the Baruch Performing Arts Center 55 Lexington Avenue, The Folksbiene will present a concert of a classic Yiddish Operetta not heard in New York in over 70 years.

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.

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.

Broadway veteran Mike Burstyn is set to star in the new musical The Adventures of Hershele Ostropolyer at the Baruch Performing Arts Center. Previews of this world premiere musical will begin May 25th.

The international stage, film and television star Mike Burstyn plays the title role in the world premiere of a new musical, 'The Adventures of Hershele Ostropolyer,' which the Drama Desk Award-winning National Yiddish Theatre - Folksbiene presents this spring beginning May 25. Burstyn, a two-time Kinor David-winner (Israel's Oscar), starred in Folksbiene's widely acclaimed hit musical revue 'On Second Avenue' for which he earned a 2006 best actor in a musical Drama Desk nomination. The show will close on June 27.

Broadway veteran Mike Burstyn is set to star in the new musical The Adventures of Hershele Ostropolyer at the Baruch Performing Arts Center. Previews of this world premiere musical will begin May 25th.

Broadway veteran Mike Burstyn is set to star in the new musical The Adventures of Hershele Ostropolyer at the Baruch Performing Arts Center. Previews of this world premiere musical will begin May 25th.

Broadway veteran Mike Burstyn is set to star in the new musical The Adventures of Hershele Ostropolyer at the Baruch Performing Arts Center. Previews of this world premiere musical will begin May 25th.

Broadway veteran Mike Burstyn is set to star in the new musical The Adventures of Hershele Ostropolyer at the Baruch Performing Arts Center. Previews of this world premiere musical will begin May 25th.

The international stage, film and television star Mike Burstyn has just been cast to play the title role in the world premiere of a new musical, 'The Adventures of Hershele Ostropolyer,' which the Drama Desk Award-winning National Yiddish Theatre - Folksbiene presents this spring beginning May 25.

The highly praised one-man show 'The Big Bupkis! A Complete Gentile's Guide to Yiddish vaudeville,' starring the Yiddish matinee idol, Shane Bertram Baker, will close on Saturday, January 30 at 8pm before moving on to bigger, bupkisier things.

Join the Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy (LESJC) for a unique Yiddish Theater Brunch program, 'The Big Bupkis! A Complete Gentile's Guide to Yiddish Vaudeville.'

The highly praised one-man show 'The Big Bupkis! A Complete Gentile's Guide to Yiddish vaudeville,' starring the Yiddish matinee idol, Shane Bertram Baker, will close on Saturday, January 30 at 8pm before moving on to bigger, bupkisier things.

Shane Bertram Baker, unquestionably the biggest star in Yiddish vaudeville today, returns in his mega-hit sensation, 'The Big Bupkis! A Complete Gentile's Guide to Yiddish Vaudeville' for the first open-run of a Yiddish-related show in twenty years.

Shane Bertram Baker, unquestionably the biggest star in Yiddish vaudeville today, returns in his mega-hit sensation, 'The Big Bupkis! A Complete Gentile's Guide to Yiddish Vaudeville' for the first open-run of a Yiddish-related show in twenty years.

NO ONE OVER 65! The upstart New Yiddish Rep, a new Yiddish theatre company with a rebellious streak, is thumbing its schnozzola at the very same demographic that you might assume makes up the lion's share of its audience.

Shane Bertram Baker, unquestionably the biggest star in Yiddish vaudeville today, returns in his mega-hit sensation, 'The Big Bupkis! A Complete Gentile's Guide to Yiddish Vaudeville' for the first open-run of a Yiddish-related show in twenty years.

New York's Yiddish Theater of the 1920s returns to riotous life in the Garage Theatre Group's World Premiere of Meester Amerika in Teaneck this February. Meester Amerika revives the comedy and the music of New York's Lower East Side in a toe-tapping new musical for the whole family. The show opens February 12 at the Becton Theatre, 960 River Road in Teaneck. Meester Amerika is the story of the Rose family, popular entertainers in the Yiddish Theater as they try to succeed in the strange country of America. In particular, it's the story of Joey, the handsome young headliner who 'against his family's wishes' wants to become a Cantor. When Joey meets a girl from the right side of the tracks, chaos follows. Through a maelstrom of cross-dressing relatives, mistaken identities, and shattered illusions, Joey learns what it really means to be 'Mister America.'