People
Meet the people who made Yiddish theatre happen: on stage, behind the scenes, and in the audience.
January 7, 2017
Brothel Intrigue, with a Modern Twist: Got fun nekome at the New Yiddish Rep
The New Yiddish Rep’s production is no period play. The play itself feels remarkably modern, even 110 years later, and the New Yiddish Rep has given *Got fun nekome* a production to match.
December 29, 2016
Journeys Through a Life in the Theatre: Charles Slucki (1948-2015)
"There are no small parts, only small actors,” my dad would tell me...
December 23, 2016
Mending The Torn Curtain: A Documentary Film About the First International Yiddish Theatre Festival
Montreal prides itself on being the city of festivals. It is home to the world’s largest, if not the most prestigious, jazz festival, and the largest, and maybe the most prestigious, comedy festival.
November 20, 2016
London – New York, or The Great British Yiddish Theatre Brain Drain
We Brits Have been sending some of our finest actors across the Atlantic for as long as anyone can remember.
November 9, 2016
Dragging the Netherlands into a Global World: Yiddish Theatre and the Ansky Society
The Netherlands never established a permanent Yiddish theatre, but it did establish the Ansky Society
October 24, 2016
Franz Kafka’s Vagabond Stars
On February 18 1912, a Prague businessman and little-known German-language writer named Franz Kafka introduced an evening of Yiddish literary recitations in the city’s Jewish Town Hall.