Tag: Theater
Legendary Jewish stand-up comedian Jackie Mason dies at 93
Jackie Mason, a former rabbi who went from Catskills comic to hit one-man shows, passed away on Saturday at the age of 93.
Mason died at 6 p.m. at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan. His...
Jewish comedic actor, box-office star of ‘Beethoven’ Charles Grodin dies at 86
Jewish actor Charles Grodin died of cancer at his home in Wilton, Conn, on Tuesday. He was 86 years old.
He was “one of the funniest people I ever met … , ” tweeted Steve...
Jewish actor Yaphet Kotto, star of ‘Alien,’ Bond villain, dies at age 81
Actor Yaphet Kotto, who starred in the film “Alien” and played the first black James Bond villain, died on March 14 at the age of 81, his wife announced on Facebook.
Kotto’s wife of 24...
December 16,1947: Malina’s Jewish Anarchist Play
Judith Malina, co-founder with Julian Beck of the Living Theater in 1947, premiered what she described as “my Jewish anarchist play,” Korach, on this date in 2010. “In retelling the familiar story of Korach as it unfolds...
Der Dibek (The Dybbuk): 100th Anniversary Production
December 2020 marks 100 years since the curtain first rose on the Vilner Troupe's ground-breaking production of Sh. Ansky's Der Dibek (The Dybbuk, or, Between Two Worlds) which theater historian Debra Caplan calls 'the...
We are proud to announce our participation in a very special play reading: “It...
Wednesday, October 28TH at 1:00 PM ET
(Viewable through Sunday November 1, 2020 at 1:00 PM)
Debuting on October 28th, Folksbiene will present “It Can’t Happen Here” a dramatization of the 1935 novel by Sinclair Lewis that imagines the...
Large archive of Moscow State Yiddish Theater now online
דער „בלאַוואַטניק־אַרכיוו“ האָט לעצטנס געשטעלט אויף דער אינטערנעץ הונדערטער בילדער פֿון חפֿצים פֿאַרבונדן מיט דער געשיכטע פֿונעם מאָסקווער ייִדישן מלוכה־טעטאַער („גאָסעט“). די אַרטיפֿאַקטן, וואָס נעמען אַרײַן הונדערטער פֿאָטאָגראַפֿיעס, סצענאַרן, בראָשורן, צייכענונגען און אַפֿישן, ווי אויך ביכער...
Broadway is dark, but NYTF will bring the stage to you
Folksbiene! LIVE – an online celebration of Yiddish culture featuring livestreamed theater, American Jewish performers, workshops, and other events – including a talkback with the cast of the award-winning Fiddler on the Roof in...
Anastasia fills our dreams
Don’t we all fantasize about being someone else?
Doesn’t every little girl like to play princess, dressing up in gowns and tiaras?
What if that childish fantasy was once your reality?
I first heard the story of...
Noura and the problems of immigrant families
Jews of Eastern European ancestry are all too familiar with the pogroms that forcibly removed their forebears from their homes in the 1800s and continued through the Holocaust. However, Jews don’t hold the exclusive...