Jewwis Telegraphic Agency A classic play sounds more American when it is performed in Yiddish. Go figure. BY ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL DECEMBER 5, 2017 12:19 PM Actors appearing in “Awake and Sing!” from left to right: Ronit Asheri, Moshe Lobel, Lea Kalisch,...
A post-modern classic by Hanoch Levin, a couples recurring life pattern, in a never ending cycle of existential crisis. Levin has been called the Israeli Beckett and is Israel’s greatest playwright to date. And yet his work is virtually unknown in the United...
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The ‘Godot’ We’ve All Been Waiting For On a recent Friday evening, I was sitting in Manhattan’s Castillo Theatre, on West 42nd Street, waiting to see a production of Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot.” As the house lights went down, and the stage...
Review: In ‘God of Vengeance,’ a Nice Jewish Family Lives Above a Brothel By Charles Isherwood Dec. 29, 2016 Questions of guilt and retribution gnaw ceaselessly at the heart of Yankl (Shane Baker), the central character in Sholem Asch’s “God of Vengeance,” which is...
