Audiences
Yiddish audiences were famously vocal, and the galleries of Yiddish theatres could be raucous places. The annals of the Yiddish stage are filled with colorful tales featuring “Moyshe,” the name theatre people collectively bestowed on Yiddish theatregoers.
June 25, 2019
Top 10 Queerest Moments in the Yiddish Theatre: An Illustrated List in Honor of Pride Month 2019
A DYTP top 10 list
October 2, 2018
A Yiddish Poet, a Cuban Revolutionary, and a Historical Legend Walk Into a Bar: A Review of Hatuey: Memory of Fire
A brand-new opera, sung partially in Yiddish and partially in Spanish—and sometimes in both languages at the same time.
August 2, 2018
How Jewish Can One Fiddler Be?: Reflections on the Folksbiene’s Fidler afn dakh
DAVID LEARNED ABOUT the Yiddish production of Fiddler on the Roof from his husband’s non-Jewish aunt, who lives on the Upper West Side. Auntie Kay, as we call her, has the pulse on Jewish New York like no one else, even though she’s not Jewish. He then emailed his culture-maven colleague in New York, Rebecca Kobrin, to see […]
July 17, 2018
A fidler afn dakh: Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish
Before there was Fiddler, there was Tevye.
August 8, 2017
Yiddish Opera at the Standard Theatre, London 1895
Who in Surabaya would possibly be interested in reading about Yiddish theatre in London’s East End?
February 28, 2017
10 Things You Need to Know About God of Vengeance
A Twitter summary of its production history would read something like this: “admired, translated, parodied, panned, banned, prosecuted, withdrawn, forgotten, revived, celebrated.”