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Yiddish theater

Elizabeth Carter
Posted inTheater

‘Indecent’ comes to Walnut Creek to tell groundbreaking queer Yiddish story

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky August 27, 2025August 27, 2025

A play within a play, a metaphor for the need for freedom and a cautionary tale from history, all wrapped up in a tale of censorship, shame and bravery. That, […]

Malka Wallick (left) and Rivka Borek in a pre-production photo for "Indecent" at the San Francisco Playhouse. (Photo/Jessica Palopoli)
Posted inCulture

‘Indecent’ at S.F. Playhouse pulls back curtain on scandalous 1907 Yiddish play

by Patricia Corrigan September 14, 2022September 16, 2022
A scene from the Yiddish version of "Waiting for Godot" staged at Sweden's Royal Dramatic Theater in Stockholm, Nov. 13, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Magnus Swärd-Judisk kultur i Sverige)
Posted inCulture

Sweden’s national theater stages its first ever Yiddish production

by Katarzyna Andersz and JTA November 22, 2021November 22, 2021
Naomi Newman as Reb Eli in the upcoming Zoom play "God of Vengeance." (Photo/Courtesy Newman)
Posted inTheater

A queer, heretical Yiddish play too edgy for 1907 lives again on Zoom

by Patricia Corrigan March 9, 2021September 14, 2022
A Works Progress Administration poster for a production of "It Can't Happen Here" in Detroit during World War II. (Photo/Library of Congress)
Posted inTheater

Demagogue president revived in Yiddish theater’s new take on 1936 play

Josefin Dolsten by Josefin Dolsten and JTA October 29, 2020

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