The Forward

Three Yiddish plays about demons and saints is opening off-Broadway

A selection of three short plays serving up demons, saints and sinners is premiering off-Broadway this month. The show, Bashevis’s Demons, is based on several short stories by Nobel prize-winning ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

A new play tells the true story of a former Hasid who translated the New Testament into Yiddish

“The Gospel According to Chaim” is billed as the first full-length Yiddish drama written in the United States in 70 years. (New York Jewish Week) — The true story of a formerly Hasidic Baltimore man ...
The Jewish Exponent

New Jewish Play, ‘The Last Yiddish Speaker,’ Coming to Philadelphia

The cast of “The Last Yiddish Speaker” at the Proscenium Theatre at the Drake in Philadelphia. (Courtesy of The InterAct Theatre Company) The InterAct Theatre Co. is bringing a Jewish play, “The Last ...
The Forward

Training the ‘Hester Street’ actors how to pronounce their Yiddish lines

The work of a Yiddishist often takes unexpected twists, some quite delightful. My current stint has brought me into the world of theater as the Yiddish language coach for a new play, Hester Street, by ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

On stage and in the classroom, Mikhl Yashinsky is stoking the flame of the Yiddish revival

(New York Jewish Week) — In the Yiddish classes Mikhl Yashinsky teaches for the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and the Workers Circle, he begins by asking students to explain why they decided to ...