Theatre Troupes


July 17, 2018

A fidler afn dakh: Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish

Before there was Fiddler, there was Tevye.
June 20, 2018

Visual Artists and Yiddish Avant-garde Theatre in Poland

During the interwar period in Poland, producers of literary and avant-garde Yiddish theatre invited visual artists to play key roles in realizing their creative visions.
April 11, 2018

Rosa Rapoport and Teatro IFT in Buenos Aires

In this excerpt from Rosa’s oral history, she shares her memories performing on stage at Teatro IFT, and the theatre’s eventual transition from Yiddish to a Spanish-language repertoire.
March 26, 2018

Sholem Asch at the End of the World

Sholem Asch belongs to those Yiddish authors who often defy rather than obey the conventions of Yiddish culture and Jewish sensibilities.
January 9, 2018

Revival and Homage Productions of Yiddish Theatre

There’s something about the popular entertainment of the 1880s-1930s that draws people to fool around with creative ways of making it contemporary.
April 18, 2017

The Stones Outtake

An outtake from the play Indecent