‘New York’s Yiddish Theater’ Explores a Fractious Heritage of Melodrama and Musicals

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 11, 2016 Art, Plays

Click Here to Read: ‘New York’s Yiddish Theater’ Explores a Fractious Heritage of Melodrama and Musicals By Joseph Berger in The New York Times on March 10, 2016.

An exhibit devoted to Sholem Aleichem’s Tevye stories and to “Fiddler on the Roof,’’ the musical they inspired.

JAKE NAUGHTON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

‘The Secret Garden,’ a Concert Revival in Which Sadness Morphs Into Joy

By Tamar SchwartzFebruary 23, 2016 Plays

Click Here to Read: Review: ‘The Secret Garden,’ a Concert Revival in Which Sadness Morphs Into Joy By Stephen Holden in The New York Times on February 22, 2016

Daisy Eagan as Martha, the chambermaid, and Sydney Lucas as Mary in “The Secret Garden.” Credit Michelle V. Agins/The New York Time

Shame and Guilt Drives Several New Productions, Which Is Good for Us

By Tamar SchwartzFebruary 21, 2016 Plays

Click Here to Read: Shame and Guilt Drives Several New Productions, Which Is Good for Us by Ben Brantley in the New York Times on February 18, 2016.
Forest Whitaker in the play “Hughie.” SARA KRULWICH / THE NEW YORK TIMES

“This Is What Researchers Dream about Finding”: a Fragment about “The Dybbuk”

By Tamar SchwartzFebruary 11, 2016 Plays

Click Here to Read: “This Is What Researchers Dream about Finding”: a Fragment about “The Dybbuk” on the YIVO Vilna Collections website on February 10, 2016.

Fragment of manuscript by Michal Weichert in the YIVO materials at the Lithuanian Central
State Archives

Sheldon Harnick Raises the Curtain on ‘Fiddler’ Memories

By Tamar SchwartzJanuary 7, 2016 Plays

Click Here to Read: Sheldon Harnick Raises the Curtain on ‘Fiddler’ Memories by Masha Leon on the Forward website on January 5, 2016.

‘Fiddler’ lyricist Sheldon Harnick, R, weighed in in on the latest production. With him in this photo is composer Jerry Bock, L, and The Forward’s Masha Leon.

Yoshe Kalb by I.J. Singer

By Tamar SchwartzDecember 3, 2015 Plays

Click Here to Read: The Museum of the Yiddish Theatre in association with the Museum of Family History’s Education and Research Centre presentsYiddish theatre 101: the play in history: Maurice Schwartz’s Yiddish Art Theatre Production of YOSHE KALB, by I. J. Singer

New Yiddish Rep to Stage ‘GODOT’ & LAND OF FIRE

By Tamar SchwartzNovember 24, 2015 Plays

Click Here to Read: New Yiddish Rep to Stage ‘GODOT’ & LAND OF FIRE at Theater for the New City on the Broadway World.com website on November 23, 2015.

Scenes From Hysterical: Anna Freud’s Story

By Tamar SchwartzNovember 15, 2015 Plays

Click Here to Read: Scenes From Hysterical: Anna Freud’s Story: A staged reading benefits the Ali Forney Center, which provides housing to homeless LGBT youth in New York City on the curve website on November 15, 2015.

Avi Hoffman and Suzanne Toren on ‘Death of a Salesman’ and Yiddish

By Tamar SchwartzNovember 11, 2015 Plays

Click Here to Read: Avi Hoffman and Suzanne Toren on ‘Death of a Salesman’ and Yiddish by Laura Collins-Highes in The New York Times on November 10, 2015.

Avi Hoffman and Suzanne Toren, who star in the New Yiddish Rep’s production of “Death of a Salesman.”

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Yiddish Breathes New Life Into ‘Death of a Salesman’

By Tamar SchwartzOctober 18, 2015 Plays

Click Here to Read: Yiddish Breathes New Life Into ‘Death of a Salesman’ by Ezra Glinter on the Forward Website on October 16, 2015

Click Here to Read: ‘DEATH OF A SALESMAN’ IS AMERICAN, NOT YIDDISH: The New Yiddish Rep’s admirable production of the Arthur Miller classic shows how lucky we are the playwright left his Jewish heritage behind By David Mikics on the Tablet Website on October 16, 2015.