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National Yiddish Theater
The National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, commonly known as NYTF, is a professional theater company in New York City which produces both Yiddish plays and plays translated into Yiddish, in a theater equipped with simultaneous superscript translation into English. The company's leadership consists of executive director Dominick Balletta and artistic director Zalmen Mlotek. The board is co-chaired by Sandra Cahn and Carol Levin. History Folksbiene ( yi, פֿאָלקסבינע, , ''People's Stage'') was founded in 1915, under the auspices of the fraternal and Yiddish cultural organization Workmen's Circle,History ". National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene. nytf.org. Retrieved 23 November 2016. on New York City’s , as an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yiddish Theatre
Yiddish theatre consists of plays written and performed primarily by Jews in Yiddish, the language of the Central European Ashkenazi Jewish community. The range of Yiddish theatre is broad: operetta, musical comedy, and satiric or nostalgic revues; melodrama; naturalist drama; expressionist and modernist plays. At its height, its geographical scope was comparably broad: from the late 19th century until just before World War II, professional Yiddish theatre could be found throughout the heavily Jewish areas of Eastern and East Central Europe, but also in Berlin, London, Paris, Buenos Aires and New York City. Yiddish theatre's roots include the often satiric plays traditionally performed during religious holiday of Purim (known as Purimshpils); other masquerades such as the Dance of Death; the singing of cantors in the synagogues; Jewish secular song and dramatic improvisation; exposure to the theatre traditions of various European countries, and the Jewish literary culture that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joel Grey
Joel Grey (born Joel David Katz; April 11, 1932) is an American actor, singer, dancer, photographer and theatre director. He is best known for portraying the Master of Ceremonies in the musical ''Cabaret'' on Broadway as well as in the 1972 film adaptation. He has won an Academy Award, a Tony Award, and a Golden Globe Award. He also originated the role of George M. Cohan in the musical ''George M!'' in 1968 and the Wizard of Oz in the musical ''Wicked''. He also starred as Moonface Martin and Amos Hart in the Broadway revivals of ''Anything Goes'' and ''Chicago'', respectively. Early life Grey was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of Goldie "Grace" (née Epstein) and Mickey Katz, an actor, comedian, and musician. Both his parents were Jewish. He attended Alexander Hamilton High School in Los Angeles, California. Career Grey started his career, at age 10, in the Cleveland Play House's Curtain Pullers children's theatre program in the early 1940s, appearing in productions such ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amerike The Golden Land
Amerike – The Golden Land is a musical in Yiddish and English depicting the journey of Jewish immigrants to the United States. Revisiting the archives of Yiddish Theater, ''Amerike'' utilizes popular songs of the time period to tell the story of an immigrant people as they confront the challenges of living in early 20th-century New York City. With book, lyrics, and song by Moishe Rosenfeld and Zalmen Mlotek, the musical is proof that Yiddish culture and Yiddish Theatre still thrive, despite that Yiddish is on the world list of endangered languages. Synopsis ''Amerike – The Golden Land'' tells the journey of America's Jewish ancestors who emigrated from their towns and cities in Europe and Russia (especially the Pale of Settlement) to start a new life in America. The characters in this story start off with a tremendous amount of hope in leaving their homes and starting new lives in NYC. However, their notions of America as a free land are shattered at Ellis Island when they w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sorceress (Di Kishefmakhern)
''The Witch of Botoşani'' or simply ''The Witch'' or ''The Sorceress'' (original Yiddish title ''Di Kishefmakhern'') was an 1878, or possibly 1877, play by Abraham Goldfaden. Like most of Goldfaden's major works, it included music. The play was based on popular superstition; Goldfaden would later remark, "I wrote ''Di kishefmakhern'' (''The Witch'') in Romania, where the populace – Jews as much as Romanians – believe strongly in witches." ercovici, 1998The title role, a female character, was written to be played by a man; it was first played by Israel Grodner. The play survived into a far different era of Yiddish theater: Maurice Schwartz played it at New York City's Yiddish Art Theater in 1925. dler, 1999, 107 (commentary) Jacob Adler made his 1878 stage debut in the role of the lover Marcus, in a production in Kherson, Ukraine, in which Israel Rosenberg played the title role. dler, 1999, 107 Restoration In the Fall of 2017, the National Yiddish Theater – Folks ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Museum Of Jewish Heritage
A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make these items available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary. The largest museums are located in major cities throughout the world, while thousands of local museums exist in smaller cities, towns, and rural areas. Museums have varying aims, ranging from the conservation and documentation of their collection, serving researchers and specialists, to catering to the general public. The goal of serving researchers is not only scientific, but intended to serve the general public. There are many types of museums, including art museums, natural history museums, science museums, war museums, and children's museums. According to the International Council of Museums (ICOM), there are more than 55,000 museums in 202 count ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comedian Harmonists
The Comedian Harmonists were an internationally famous, all-male German close harmony ensemble that performed between 1928 and 1934 as one of the most successful musical groups in Europe before World War II. The group consisted of Harry Frommermann ( tenor buffo), Asparuh "Ari" Leschnikoff (first tenor), Erich Collin (second tenor), Roman Cycowski ( baritone), Robert Biberti ( bass), and Erwin Bootz (pianist). The hallmark of the Comedian Harmonists was its members' ability to blend their voices together so that the individual singers could appear and disappear back into the vocal texture. Its repertoire was wide, ranging from the folk and classical songs arranged by Frommermann to appealing and witty popular songs of the day by writers such as Peter Igelhoff, Werner Richard Heymann and Paul Abraham. History In 1927, unemployed actor Harry Frommermann was inspired by The Revelers, a jazz-influenced popular vocal group from the United States, to create a German group of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Sussman
Bruce Howard Sussman (born July 12, 1949) is an American lyricist, and librettist. Though he has collaborated with numerous composers, he is probably best known for his work with his long-time collaborator, Barry Manilow. Together they have written over two hundred songs for numerous recording artists, films, stage musicals and television programs. Life and career Sussman was born in Jackson Heights, Queens, New York and was raised on Long Island, where he graduated from Sanford H. Calhoun High School in Merrick, New York. He then graduated from Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Upon his return to New York, he was accepted into the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop. During this period he met Barry Manilow, and they began writing jingles and songs together. Among their first successes was ''Copacabana (At the Copa)'' which became Sussman's first gold record as well as a Grammy Award-winning, international hit. It would later become the source mate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barry Manilow
Barry Manilow (born Barry Alan Pincus; June 17, 1943) is an American singer and songwriter with a career that spans seven decades. His hit recordings include "Could It Be Magic", " Somewhere Down the Road", " Mandy", "I Write the Songs", " Can't Smile Without You" and "Copacabana (At the Copa)". He has recorded and released 51 Top 40 singles on the Adult Contemporary Chart, including 13 that hit number one, 28 that appeared within the top ten, and 36 that reached the top twenty. Manilow has released 13 platinum and six multi-platinum albums. Although not a favorite artist of music critics, Manilow has been praised by his peers in the recording industry, including Frank Sinatra, who was quoted in the 1970s as saying, "He's next." As well as producing and arranging albums for himself and other artists, Manilow has written and performed songs for musicals, films, and commercials for corporations such as McDonald's, Pepsi-Cola, and Band-Aid. He has been nominated for a Grammy A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Witch Of Botoșani
''The Witch of Botoşani'' or simply ''The Witch'' or ''The Sorceress'' (original Yiddish title ''Di Kishefmakhern'') was an 1878, or possibly 1877, play by Abraham Goldfaden. Like most of Goldfaden's major works, it included music. The play was based on popular superstition; Goldfaden would later remark, "I wrote ''Di kishefmakhern'' (''The Witch'') in Romania, where the populace – Jews as much as Romanians – believe strongly in witches." ercovici, 1998The title role, a female character, was written to be played by a man; it was first played by Israel Grodner. The play survived into a far different era of Yiddish theater: Maurice Schwartz played it at New York City's Yiddish Art Theater in 1925. dler, 1999, 107 (commentary) Jacob Adler made his 1878 stage debut in the role of the lover Marcus, in a production in Kherson, Ukraine, in which Israel Rosenberg played the title role. dler, 1999, 107 Restoration In the Fall of 2017, the National Yiddish Theater – Folksbi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indecent (play)
''Indecent'' is a 2015 play by Paula Vogel. It recounts the controversy surrounding the play ''God of Vengeance'' by Sholem Asch, which was produced on Broadway in 1923, and for which the producer and cast were arrested and convicted on the grounds of obscenity. ''Indecent'' was first produced in 2015. It had an Off-Broadway run in 2016, followed by a Broadway run in 2017 at the Cort Theatre. The play was nominated for three Tony Awards and won Best Direction of a Play for Rebecca Taichman and Lighting Design in a Play for Christopher Akerlind. Productions The play was commissioned by Yale Repertory Theatre and American Revolutions: The United States History Cycle at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and received the 2015 Edgerton Foundation New American Plays Award. ''Indecent'' had its world premiere at the Yale Repertory Theatre in October 2015 as a co-production with La Jolla Playhouse, from November 13 to December 10, 2015. The play had its New York premiere Off-Broadw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid digital subscribers. It also is a producer of popular podcasts such as '' The Daily''. Founded in 1851 by Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones, it was initially published by Raymond, Jones & Company. The ''Times'' has won 132 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any newspaper, and has long been regarded as a national " newspaper of record". For print it is ranked 18th in the world by circulation and 3rd in the U.S. The paper is owned by the New York Times Company, which is publicly traded. It has been governed by the Sulzberger family since 1896, through a dual-class share structure after its shares became publicly traded. A. G. Sulzberger, the paper's publisher and the company's chairman, is the fifth generation of the family to head the pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Golden Bride
''The Golden Bride'' ( yi, Die Goldene Kale) is a 1923, Yiddish language musical, or operetta. It was revived in 2015 and again in 2016 by the Folksbiene National Yiddish Theatre in New York. The production received two Drama Desk nominations, one for Best Revival of a Musical and for Best Director for Bryna Wasserman and Motl Didner. Die Goldene Kale premiered in 1923 with music by Joseph Rumshinsky, lyrics by Louis Gilrod and a book by Frieda Freiman at Kessler's Second Avenue Theater, on New York's Lower East Side. The popular show was produced in Yiddish-speaking communities in Europe, North and South America for a quarter of a century, but forgotten after its last run in 1948. History In the early 1990s, musicologist Michael Ochs, discovered parts of the operetta's score and libretto in an archive at Harvard's Loeb Music Library where he was the Richard F. French Music Librarian. He translated it into English and it was displayed as part of an exhibition, then returned to st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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