February 13, 2020
Interview with Joshua Horowitz on the Orchestration of Bas-Sheve
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.
January 23, 2020
Interview: Alicia Svigals and Donald Sosin on Their Film Score for The Ancient Law
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.
December 20, 2019
Magic and Melody Delight in a Yiddish Fairytale Reborn
An evil stepmother. A brave heroine in danger. A handsome fiancé. A conniving sorceress. A plan foiled. A fairytale wedding.
November 6, 2019
Theatre: A Sketch
Jessica Kirzane’s translation and introduction of Miriam Karpilove’s “Theatre.”
September 4, 2019
The Yiddish Theatre Time Machine
The DYTP team on the performances they would have liked to witness.
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…