Composers & Musicians

“Come on, sister, yuh gotta play ball: this is Chicago!” (Jake to Roxie – the final line of Chicago, a play by Maurine Dallas Watkins.) Chicago, Chicago Chicago, with music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb, is a two-billion-dollar enterprise according to Wikipedia. It enjoyed a very successful initial run of 936 performances on Broadway from […]

Joel Berkowitz and Nahma Sandrow in conversation about her new anthology, Yiddish Plays for Reading and Performance.

Part two of two on how the digital humanities can inspire the world of Yiddish theatre.

Patricial Nuriel interviews Alejandro Vagnenkos about his documentary Jevel Katz y sus paisanos.

In February 2019, Josh Horowitz was sent the manuscript of Henekh Kon’s piano and vocal score of the only known pre-Holocaust Yiddish opera, Bas-Sheve.

Alicia Svigals and Donald Sosin on scoring a Weimar-era film about a backwoods Jewish boy whose talent leads him to show business success and possible romance with a well-placed Gentile woman.