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Hershey Felder Presents has announced details for Before Fiddler - Live From Florence, featuring actor, playwright and virtuoso pianist Hershey Felder as Yiddish author Sholem Aleichem, as well as performances by the Florence-based Klezmer music ensemble, Klezmerata Fiorentina.

Porchlight Music Theatre is partnering with Hershey  Felder Presents - Live from Florence on its next live streaming production:  Hershey Felder as “Sholem Aleichem” in Before Fiddler starring Felder as  famed “Tevye the Milkman” and featuring Klezmerata Fiorentina  premiering Sunday, Feb. 7 at 7 p.m. CST.

Newly adapted for the screen, Felder performed the acclaimed work from a rich, filmic setting from Florence, Italy, offering a front row seat for this intimate look at the music and life of a great genius from locations where the composer lived and worked.

Virtuoso actor/pianist/playwright Hershey Felder is bringing us a holiday treat with a livestreamed performance of his hit show Hershey Felder TCHAIKOVSKY presented live from Florence, Italy where Tchaikovsky lived and worked. It is also not so incidentally where Felder himself lives and has been hunkered down ever since his normally hectic life of constant touring was brought to a halt by the Covid epidemic. Hershey Felder TCHAIKOVSKY features an extended focus on the composer’s iconic The Nutcracker ballet, and also delves into his life in Italy, and his array of works from the ballets Swan Lake and Sleeping Beauty, to his 1812 Overture, and brilliant symphonic works. Presented by TheatreWorks Silicon Valley in partnership with Hershey Felder Presents Live from Florence, the richly cinematic show is directed by Florentine film artist Stefano Decarli and based on the original stage play directed by Trevor Hay. Hershey Felder TCHAIKOVSKY will be presented live on Sunday, December 20, 2020 (5pm PST/8pm EST) with streaming on-demand access available December 21 – 27, 2020. Tickets and more information are available at TheatreWorks.org. BroadwayWorld spoke with Felder just a couple of days ago while he was in the thick of final preparations for the livestream - about who the real Tchaikovsky was and his difficulties as a gay man in tsarist Russia, the enduring popularity of his music, and how Felder is spending the holidays in Florence. He is always a fun and fascinating person to talk to, with his encyclopedic knowledge of the arts and his idiosyncratically musical syntax. His response to even a simple question can be at once funny, nerdy and heartfelt.

Hershey Felder Presents – Live from Florence continues its 2020-2021 season with a special holiday performance of Hershey Felder TCHAIKOVSKY, which will be live streamed from Florence, Italy on Sunday, December 20, 2020 at 5:00 PM PT / 8:00 PM ET. Streaming On Demand for Hershey Felder TCHAIKOVSKY will also be available from December 21-27, 2020. 

The dramatic story of the life of composer and conductor Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky comes to vivid life through the artistry of impresario Hershey Felder in HERSHEY FELDER, TCHAIKOVSKY. A timebending tale of passion and repression, Felder's latest livestream achievement explores the mysteries surrounding some of the greatest music ever written.

Virtuoso performer/playwright Hershey Felder will ring in the holiday season with a livestreamed performance of his hit show Hershey Felder TCHAIKOVSKY, offering home-viewers a front row seat for this acclaimed work that brings to life the famed Russian composer of The Nutcracker Suite.

Porchlight Music Theatre is partnerning with Hershey Felder Presents - Live from Florence on its next live streaming production: Tchaikovsky starring Hershey Felder as famed composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and premiering Sunday, Dec. 20 at 7 p.m. CST. 

San Diego Repertory Theatre (San Diego REP) and Hershey Felder Presents announced today the details of Hershey Felder: Tchaikovsky, streamed live from Florence, Italy.

Tickets for each of the online events are available at PorchlightMusicTheatre.org. Links are available for viewing 72 hours after purchase.  Porchlight also announces the return of the popular series celebrating the 90th birthday of Stephen Sondheim, Sondheim@90 Roundtable with Michael Weber. The series returns Saturday, Dec. 5 at 7 p.m. CST with a discussion on Road Show with guests Deanna Dunagan, Chris Jones and Michael Mahler.

Virtuoso performer/playwright Hershey Felder will transport audiences to the City of Light with a livestreamed performance of his hit show Hershey Felder as Claude Debussy in A PARIS LOVE STORY.

The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts announces two live streamed musical events produced by HERSHEY FELDER PRESENTS – LIVE FROM FLORENCE, featuring Hershey Felder.

Porchlight Music Theatre is proud to partner again with Hershey Felder Presents for their latest offering: Hershey Felder as Claude Debussy in A Paris Love Story - Live from Florence, Italy, Sunday, Nov. 22 at 7 p.m. CST.

This holiday season, virtuoso performer/ playwright Hershey Felder will transport audiences and lift spirits with livestreamed performances directly from Europe, from the locations where his subjects lived and worked, in his hit shows Hershey Felder as Claude Debussy in A PARIS LOVE STORY and Hershey Felder TCHAIKOVSKY.

San Diego Repertory Theatre (San Diego REP) and Hershey Felder Presents announced today the details for Hershey Felder: A Paris Love Story, live from Florence. The production, featuring the music of Claude Debussy, written and performed by Hershey Felder and based on the stage play directed by Trevor Hay, will be streamed live on Nov 22 at 5 PM PT.

Berkeley Rep's Artistic Director Johanna Pfaelzer today announced three additional virtual projects for the fall. The season, titled Rep On-Air, will include collaborations with Tony Award nominee Raúl Esparza (Company, Speed-the-Plow, and Taboo), celebrated New Yorker cartoon artist Tom Toro, Pulitzer Finalist Eisa Davis, and Bay Area favorite Hershey Felder.

Following up the successful live streams of Hershey Felder as Irving Berlin and Hershey Felder: Beethoven, acclaimed performer Hershey Felder will present his one-man show, Hershey Felder as George Gershwin Alone streamed live on Sunday, September 13 at 5 PM PDT.

Dallas Summer Musicals announced today that it is one of a select group of U.S. arts organizations participating in the livestream event, Hershey Felder as George Gershwin Alone - Live from Florence to be streamed live on Sunday, September 13 at 7 p.m. CST. Tickets are on sale now.

Following the enormous success of its previous two livestreaming musical events, internationally acclaimed artist Hershey Felder's new arts broadcasting company, Hershey Felder Presents a?" Live from Florence, today announced its next production, Hershey Felder as George Gershwin Alone, will stream live Sunday, September 13 from Teatro della Pergola at 5 p.m. PDT, 7 p.m. CDT and 8 p.m. EDT.

Paper Mill Playhouse has announced a virtual beginning of the 2020-2021 season. Produced in partnership with Hershey Felder Presents, Paper Mill is proud to present Hershey Felder as George Gershwin Alone - Live from Florence, streamed live on Sunday, September 13 at 8:00pm.