Tag: Theater

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

If you were 16, and it was two days before you made your Broadway debut as the lead role in the Tony award-winning musical “Dear Evan Hansen,” you would likely be extremely nervous. “It’s getting...

When Monty Python and the Holy Grail was released in 1975, their wildly irreverent treatment of the Arthurian legends seemed the height of chutzpah. With the advent of VCRs, it became a cult classic that true devotées...

Jewish actress Hannah Benitez stars in the one-act drama "Bad Jews," running now through Aug. 13 by Main Street Players at the Main Street Playhouse in Miami Lakes. The story is centered on the death...

How fitting that the Actors’ Warehouse would select “Bad Jews” as the first offering in its classy new venue — a former church on Northeast First Street that has long since been repurposed from...

This year’s Tony Awards, which will held on Sunday, June 11, includes a large number of Jewish nominees and works with a strong Jewish connection. Ben Platt, 23, is nominated for best lead actor in...