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Tel Aviv Ensemble Tziporela Delights With Sketch Comedy Show “Odd Birdz”

Tel Aviv Ensemble Tziporela Delights With Sketch Comedy Show “Odd Birdz”
By November 7, 2014

Start-up theatre from the start-up nation. Read More

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Actor Shane Baker on Translating ‘Waiting for Godot’ into Yiddish

Actor Shane Baker on Translating ‘Waiting for Godot’ into Yiddish
By September 18, 2014

“A yid lebt mit bitokhn (a Jew lives with hope). For me, Beckett is all about hope.” Read More

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Watch “Waiting for Godot” in Yiddish

Watch “Waiting for Godot” in Yiddish
By September 3, 2014

A.K.A. “Vartn af Godo” Read More

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Sophie Okonedo, Jewish Nigerian Brit, Wins Tony For Best Performance by an Actress in a Play

Sophie Okonedo, Jewish Nigerian Brit, Wins Tony For Best Performance by an Actress in a Play
By June 9, 2014

The actress made her Broadway debut as Ruth Younger in “A Raisin in the Sun” Read More

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Zach Braff On His New Role In “Bullets Over Broadway” And Being An Emo Kid

Zach Braff On His New Role In “Bullets Over Broadway” And Being An Emo Kid
By March 26, 2014

“I was a melancholic child. Worried, anxious.” Read More

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‘The Princess Bride’ is Heading to the Stage

‘The Princess Bride’ is Heading to the Stage
By November 12, 2013

But for real this time Read More

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Nightlands: Oct. 5-29

Nightlands: Oct. 5-29
By October 4, 2011

N I G H T L A N D S: a new play by Sylvan Oswald, directed by Tamilla Woodard From under her auburn beehive wig, Netta Klein dreams of a life beyond Northeast Philadelphia routine. Down on Columbia Avenue, … Read More

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Hamlet’s Apocalypse

Hamlet’s Apocalypse
By November 3, 2010

Was Hamlet written by the Marrano (Converso) Jewish poet Amelia Bassano Lanier? Is it a black comedy, a parody of the Book of Revelation? Does it offer a parody of the death of the Virgin Mary? Is Polonius a comic … Read More

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