People
Meet the people who made Yiddish theatre happen: on stage, behind the scenes, and in the audience.
August 21, 2019
An Interview with Daniel Galay
Daniel Galay is a prolific playwright, composer, and pianist living in Israel.
June 29, 2019
“A Piquant Curiosity”: The Gender-Bending Drama Yo a man, nit a man
Read about the gender-bending play Yo a man, nit a man (Yes a Man, Not a Man).
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
May 17, 2019
Grand Opera for Yiddish Speakers in Early Twentieth-Century America! Who Knew?!
In the spring of 1904, New York witnessed the unlikely spectacle of a musical-dramatic adaptation of Richard Wagner’s Parsifal—in Yiddish.
April 30, 2019
Dystopia on the Verge: Or Why a 1934 Yiddish Play About Charlie Chaplin Still Matters
Somewhere, in an obscure port city in Europe…
April 15, 2019
The World of Sara Levy
Sara Levy studied with Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, son of J. S. Bach, and became an accomplished keyboardist. She also supported a Jewish orphanage in Berlin and was a known salon hostess.