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A revival of Ionesco’s Rhinoceros is the major winner at this year’s Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland.The co-production between Edinburgh’s Royal Lyceum Thea…
Blake DeLong, Larry Owens, and more will star in this special presentation of Ionesco's play.
Since it's first incarnation in the late '80s as a one-day event, Rhino Fest has continued to stand out from the standard idea of a fringe festival.
Kudos to New Yiddish Rep for this timely and courageous production.
The production opened on September 14th to ecstatic reviews led by Theater Pizzazz which praised New Yiddish Rep's "Exquisite masterpiece!"
The Yiddish world premiere of Eugene Ionesco's RHINOCEROS will conclude its acclaimed limited run this Sunday, October 8th at the Castillo Theatre, 543 West 42 Street(between Tenth & Elevent…
We [at New Yiddish Rep] have the benefit of drawing from the different experience of actors: we have non-Jewish actors, we have Jewish actors who grew up non-affiliated and we have Jewish ac…
The conscious effort to mainstream the alt-right movement in the Trump era has, of course, troubled many Americans deeply. So it's understandable that New Yiddish Rep would want to stage Rom…
This week's In a Broadway Minute goes off-Broadway for a new production of Eugene Ionesco's RHINOCEROS with a new twist -- it's in Yiddish. Theater critic Howard Shapiro reviews this product…
Moshe Yassur is a longtime collaborator with the New Yiddish Rep, having directed their acclaimed productions of Waiting for Godot and Death of a Salesman, and he is at the helm of the…
By Myra Chanin We all know you don't have to be Jewish to like Levy's Rye Bread. Likewise, you don't have to consider Yiddish mamalushin — your native tongue &#…
It feels not only appropriate but inevitable to see a revival of this play done by a Jewish troupe - the ethnic group most specifically targeted and slaughtered by the Nazi regime. They've b…
Avant-garde and absurdist playwright Eugene Ionesco was born in Slatina, Romania to a Romanian father and a French-Romanian mother, and he wrote mostly in French. Not surprisingly, one does …
The New Yiddish Rep production revisits Ionesco's absurdist story about ordinary people seduced by fascist overtures.
For its first production of the 2017-18 season, New Yiddish Rep presents the Yiddish world premiere of RHINOCEROS by Eugene Ionesco. Performances began September 7th, with the opening set fo…
New Yiddish Rep, which produced last season's smash hit GOD OF VENGEANCE, is presenting RHINOCEROS in association with the Castillo Theatre. Called "an allegory for our times" by The New Yor…
The Yiddish world premiere of Eugene Ionesco's RHINOCEROS began performances September 7th and the official Opening is set for this Thursday, September 14th at the Castillo Theatre, 543 West…
A preview of The New Yiddish Rep's production of "Rhinoceros," Eugene Ionesco's great play about authoritarianism, presented for the first time in Yiddish.
Nearly 60 years since its premiere, the agonizingly comedic RHINOCEROS merges the sublime with the ridiculous in this savage commentary on the human condition in which an individual citizen …
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 …
A friendly reminder! The Yiddish world premiere of Eugene Ionesco's RHINOCEROS is set to begin performances tomorrow (Thursday) at the Castillo Theatre, 543 West 42 Street (between Tenth & E…
New Yiddish Rep has a two-fold mission: modern treatments of the Yiddish classics and Yiddish interpretations of modern and post-modern masterpieces. The company, headed by artistic director…