Photo Source: George Xenos Review: Backstage Shane Bertram Baker’s one-man show, written with director Allen Lewis Rickman, may claim to be a guide for gentiles, but it really instructs his primarily Jewish audience on how a Missouri goy came to be...
Drama Desk nominations for: Best Revival Best Actor THE FORWARD Yiddish Breathes New Life Into ‘Death of a Salesman’ Ezra GlinterOctober 16, 2015 Is “Death of a Salesman” a Jewish play? Is Willy Loman, its main character, Jewish? The question has...
KIRKUS REVIEW A remarkable testament to faith in the face of suffering. Zvi Kolitz is a Lithuanian Jew who left Europe in 1940 for Jerusalem, where he built a life as a daring Zionist freedom fighter. Just over a year after WWII ended, he wrote a gut-wrenching short...
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...
