Sean O’Casey’s Juno and the Paycock in New York City

By Tamar SchwartzDecember 2, 2013 Plays

Click Here to Read: Sean O’Casey’s Juno and the Paycock in New York City By David Walsh on the World Socialist Web Site on December 1, 2013.

Patrícia Vieira and Michael Marder on Stay, Illusion!’

By Tamar SchwartzNovember 21, 2013 Books, Plays

Click Here to Read: Patrícia Vieira and Michael Marder on Stay, Illusion! The Anatomy of Disgust on the Los Angeles Review of Books website on November 18th, 2013.

Click Here to Listen To: ‘ Stay, Illusion!’: Re-reading Hamlet on the QKED website on August 20, 2013.

Click Here to Read: Hamlet: A Love Story on this website

Click here to Read: Critchley and Webster Study Hamlet’s Complicated Grief on this Website.

Tale of Holocaust survival becomes an opera

By Tamar SchwartzNovember 11, 2013 Art, Plays

Click Here to Read: Tale of Holocaust survival becomes an opera by Emily Holland on the GW Hatchet website on November 8, 2013.

Media Credit: Photo courtesy of Walter Reich The opera inspired by Nehuda Yir’s life was first presented as an exhibit at Gelman Library.

Jan Kott Would Have Loved ‘Waiting for Godot’ in Yiddish

By Tamar SchwartzNovember 6, 2013 Books, Plays

Click Here to Read: Jan Kott Would Have Loved ‘Waiting for Godot’ in Yiddish. No, He Didn’t Speak Yiddish. I was reminded of the Polish critic and Shakespeare scholar at the New Yiddish Rep’s production of Beckett’s masterpiece By Frances Brent|November 6, 2013.

Reunion in postwar Paris: Jan Kott, Maryna Zagórska, Jerzy Zagórski (Catholic poet and translator), and Lidia Kott. During the war, Jan Kott and the Zagórskis were members of the Polish underground. (Courtesy of Michael Kott)

Psychoanalyze This!

By Tamar SchwartzOctober 23, 2013 Books, Movies, Plays

Click Here to Read: Psychoanalyze This! by Ted Merwin in The Jewish Week on October 22, 2013.

Ted Merwin

‘Waiting for Godot’ Reimagined as Yiddish Kvechathon

By Tamar SchwartzOctober 1, 2013 Plays

Click Here to Read: ‘Waiting for Godot’ Reimagined as Yiddish Kvechathon
By Masha Leon on The Jewish Daily Forward Website on September 30, 2013.

Rafael Goldwaser, David Mandelbaum, Shane Baker, Avi Hoffman, Moshe Yassur and Nicholas Jenkins

Some Psychoanalytic Reflections on Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice

By Tamar SchwartzSeptember 30, 2013 Papers, Plays

Click Here to Read: Some Psychoanalytic Reflections on Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice by Gerald J. Gargiulo.

This paper is previously unpublished.

Support Psychoanalysis and the Arts! with NYPSI

By Tamar SchwartzSeptember 26, 2013 Announcements, Plays

See Final Analysis Off-Broadway, and support NYPSI at the same time!

New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute is teaming up with Villa-Hauser Theatrical Development Fdn. on a ticket offer that lets you support NYPSI and enjoy an award-winning show. Continue reading Support Psychoanalysis and the Arts! with NYPSI

Play: “Signs of Life” at Prague IPA Congress

By Tamar SchwartzSeptember 25, 2013 Plays

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Click Here to Read: Introduction to Prague Performance of “Signs of Life” by Batya R. Monder.

Click Here to Read: Discussion by Batya R. Monder, MSW, BCD of Signs of Life International Psychoanalytic Association Congress Prague, August 3, 2013.

Batya Monder Marilyn Meyers Nancy Goodman Gail Humphries Mardirosian

Click Here to Read: Discussion by Ilany Kogan of Signs of Life, International Psychoanalytic Association Congress Prague, August 3, 2013.

Antony Sher returns to the spiritual home of ‘Hysteria’

By Tamar SchwartzSeptember 6, 2013 Plays

Click Here to Read: Antony Sher returns to the spiritual home of ‘Hysteria’ by Alex Bellotti on the Ham and High website on September 5, 2013.