Category: Theater
The WJC is excited to present Yiddish Tam: The Taste of Yiddish
This ninety minute presentation includes historic illustrations and film clips as well as live performance of classic Yiddish humor and theater songs that will have the audience, in the words of Sholom Aleichem, laughing through...
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From Broadway to Broadway the SJCA to review musicals’ Jewish aspects
Poster for “The Broadway Musical – A Jewish Legacy.” SARATOGA SPRINGS–The Saratoga Jewish Cultural...
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Ready to dance? OK, watch dance! NYC Ballet July 9-13
NYCB principal dancers Unity Phelan and Adrian Danchig-Waring host a unique “behind...
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Local Yom HaShoah commemoration May 5 to feature a one-act play
RUSSELL KABACK ALBANY– As part of the Capital District Jewish community’s annual Yom HaShoah...
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What’s going on in ‘Fiddler on the Roof’?
Sholem Aleichem’s Tevye stories put the Jewish confrontation with modernity front and...
Read MorePilobolus– feats of strength, whimsy, ballet
Spanning, ballet, acrobatics, comedy, drama, the Pilobolus modern dance troupe performed at the SPAC Spa Little Theater on Sunday, Oct. 8. Photographs by Jade Elizabeth Kirsop. Ms. Kirsop is available for commissions at (518)...
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New ‘Fiddler’ as politics, money torpedo our American shtetl
By MARILYN SHAPIRO A man in a red parka walks onto the stage, and intones the iconic first lines:...
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Storyteller Noa Baum to present show, workshop based on her memoir, A Land Twice Promised
Storyteller Noa Baum’s show “A Land Twice Promised” is slated for the Capital Region on Sunday,...
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The Braid to celebrate the Jewish LGBTQIA+ community; Zoom the presentation with SJCA
SARATOGA SPRINGS – Saratoga Jewish Community Arts (SJCA) has announced the second of its three...
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Drama Mamas list musical about exodus; Shalom Food Pantry to benefit
The Drama Mamas and the Shalom Food Pantry have announced the second annual All Women’s Musical...
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Singing, acting, stories — Mandy Patinkin is about joy — and doing mitzvahs
By MARILYN SHAPIRO “I want my gravestone to read, ‘I tried to connect,’” Mandy Patinkin said in a...
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Noting a failed escape from history for assimilated Jews; Stoppard’s play reveals lost heritage
By JONATHAN S. TOBIN (JNS) Tom Stoppard has been an intellectual celebrity since he first came to...
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