“A terrific production down at the 14th Street Y. If you are intimidated by Waiting for Godot the reading (super-titles) actually helps a lot… and it is quite funny… The cast is extraordinary as well… if you’ve been afraid of Waiting for Godot now is the time to go!”
-Peter Filichia, Broadway Radio
Clifford Odets’ American classic of depression era Jewish Family in the Bronx.
‘The other day Trump used the phrase “my followers.” That says it all. Every theater in the country that cares about freedom, human rights, and
Sholem Asch’s “God of Vengeance,” which was being given a timely revival by the New Yiddish Rep at LaMaMa, tells the story of Yankl, a pious Orthodox Jew, who makes his living in what remains a highly unorthodox profession.
Brilliantly directed by Moshe Yassur, this production was nominated for two Drama Desk Awards including best revival.
“A renaissancw man.” – Richard Burton
“A sort of East End Joyce.” – Anthony Burgess
“A f**k ’em Jew.” -Frederic Raphael!
A scene from “The Irish Hebrew Lesson”
New Yiddish Rep and Der LufTeaterof Strasbourg France presented New York’s only Yiddish theatrical presentation of the 2011 fall season, a new play adapted from Sholom Aleichem’s one act Agentn, which takes place on a train, and his Ayzenbahn Geshichtes, stories centered around train travel. The piece was workshopped in New York last October, and presented in a series of staged readings in November. Adapted by Rafael Goldwaser, the plays final form was shaped by the collaboration of the ensemble and the rehearsal process itself.
The Big Bupkis
“The Big Bupkis!” is an evening of cheap jokes, magic, ukulele music, hypnotism, unpleasant stories about Sophie Tucker, transvestitism, and a Yiddish bullfight poem, among other theatrical indignities. Giving nothing away, the show ends with Mr. Baker attempting to behead a volunteer from the audience. The show mixes English and Yiddish, with snarky English supertitles projected over the stage, so, no, you don’t have to know Yiddish to ‘get it’!
NYR’s first production, brought to the stage by co-founders David Mandelbaum and Amy Coleman. First performed at The Actors’ Temple in 2007, it went on to be featured at The First and Second Montreal International Yiddish Theater Festivals, and has been performed in Rome, Israel, UNC and Cornell Universities.
We aim to educate a new generation of Yiddish actors and to illuminate for the public the diversity, cutting edge creativity and universality of the Yiddish theater legacy. We strive to reach and to create new audiences even as we strengthen and satisfy existing ones.
