This one-day-only play about the American Jewish experience is happening at the Museum of Jewish Heritage this Sunday

New York City’s theater scene has become increasingly interested in exploring the American Jewish experience.

There’s A Walk on the Moon, the new Off-Broadway musical set in the Catskills in 1969 that follows a blue-collar Brooklyn Jewish family, playing through August. Earlier this summer, The Matriarchs, about six Modern Orthodox girls navigating adolescence and adulthood, opened at Theaterlab. And then there’s Off-Broadway’s Birthright, which reunites six friends nearly two decades after the Birthright Israel trip that first brought them together in 2006.

Now, another production is joining that roster, though this one is only in town for a single day. L’Chaim, America!, debuting this Sunday at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, explores the contemporary American Jewish experience through a series of true stories.

Presented by The Braid, the Los Angeles-based Jewish storytelling theater company, the production is part of a nationwide celebration marking America’s 250th birthday, with performances taking place in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Orange County in addition to the New York show and accompanying livestreams.

The production is as stripped down as theater gets. Don’t expect elaborate sets, props or costumes. Instead, an ensemble of actors brings a collection of real-life stories to life, “using the audience’s imagination to transport them from an Iranian family’s Thanksgiving table to the windswept Great Plains, from a naturalization ceremony of hundreds to a quiet American suburb,” according to an official press release.

Among the stories, screenwriter Robert Uriel Russin reflects on Jewish identity in Wyoming; Solomon Dueñas, an immigrant from El Salvador, recounts opening one of the first Jewish bakeries in Orange County; and Los Angeles writer and performer Joshua Silverstein shares how his activist Ashkenazi grandparents built alliances with the city’s Black community to help elect its first Black mayor.

Tickets to the show are free and available now right here, though a suggested $10 donation is encouraged.