Join a celebration of the famous Yiddish bard Itzik Manger on his 120th birthday, with readings, talks, music and a mini song workshop with Mike Burstyn, Shura Lipovsky, Dr. Helen Beer, Ruth…
The Congress for Jewish Culture, along with Friends of the Bund, Jewish Labor Committee and Workers Circle hosts a virtual gathering of musicians, academics and survivors and their families …
The Congress for Jewish Culture presents theater, music, films, song and sketches in a Facebook celebration of Sholem Asch, the Yiddish writer best known for his play "God of Vengeance." Hos…
The Congress for Jewish Culture is presenting an online production of Sh. Ansky's "Der Dibek" (THE DYBBUK, or, BETWEEN TWO WORLDS), which theater historian Debra Caplan calls "the most iconi…
Allen Lewis Rickman and Yelena Shmulenson smile a lot more in real life than they did as husband and wife Velvel and Dora in the shtetl prologue to the Coen Brothers' film "A Serious Man."
'Tevye Served Raw' showcases stories that didn't end up in the musical, and others from the author's canon.
Now, New York audiences have a rare opportunity to see two of his nearly two dozen plays, "The Labor of Life" and "The Whore from Ohio," which New Yiddish Rep is producing in repertory, with…
AWAKE AND SING!: New Yiddish Rep's revival of the play by Clifford Odets, follows the Bergers, a financially strapped family of three generations living under one roof. Its themes will likel…
AWAKE AND SING! plays with ideas of realism and idealism, and it will likely strike a resonant chord in a 2017 America in which many families are struggling. The cast features Luzer Twersky,…
In "Rhinoceros," Eugene Ionesco's 1959 absurdist dark comedy about the rise of Fascism and Nazism in France during the interwar years, a citizen of a small town watches his friends turn into…
In RHINOCEROS, Eugene Ionesco's 1959 absurdist dark comedy about the rise of Fascism and Nazism in France during the interwar years, a citizen of a small town watches his friends turn into r…
The absurdist dark comedy, written in 1959, is generally read as a biting satire of the rise of Fascism and Nazism in France in the interwar years. (The NYR's staging will be the first time …