To BE or not to be — ” The actor pauses for effect, then moves downstage. “Let it be, that’s what we paid for!” shouts an old man in the orchestra. Othello gestures to Desdemona, boards a gondola — ...

Although there are about a dozen Yiddish theatres in New York, hardly one of them can be considered of first rate quality. The sole exception, perhaps, is the Folks-theater on Second avenue, where ...

More than 600 friends, family and public figures gathered in Montreal to bid farewell to Dora Wasserman, the grand dame of Yiddish theater who fled war-ravaged Eastern Europe to form the only resident ...

National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene (NYTF), the longest consecutively producing theatre in the United States and the world’s oldest continuously operating Yiddish theatre company, today launched its ...

Theatre Or will present the Colorado premiere of The Last Yiddish Speaker from March 28 through April 19, written by Deborah ...

Yiddish theatrical standards in Europe today are very low, the Yiddish theatres on the other side being on a much lower level than the theatres over here, declared Abraham Ellstein, New York Jewish ...

An online Yiddish theater workshop, as well as Yiddish courses on all levels, is starting on the week of January 15, sponsored by the venerable Toronto UJA Committee for Yiddish. Each course is $160.

Between the late '30s and 2006, the number of Yiddish stage theaters in the Big Apple sadly dwindled from twelve to one. Two of the last remaining institutions were the Folksbiene Yiddish Theatre, ...