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The Steel Man

Every few seasons someone announces a Holocaust play and we brace ourselves accordingly. Cary Gitter’s The Steel Man, running at 59E59 Theaters (59 East 59th Street) from November 3 through December 13, is interested in a part of the story the genre usually skips: what happened to the kids. The setup: Jake Gellert tries to … A Holocaust survivor’s son plays his father in ‘The Steel Man’ Off-Broadway

Night Stories, a new Off-Broadway production built around the work of legendary Yiddish poet and Holocaust resistance fighter Avrom Sutzkever, opens this month at the Wild Project in Manhattan’s East Village at 195 East 3rd Street by Avenue B. The 68-minute production—which makes its official Off-Broadway debut on December 21 following a South American tour … This haunting new Off-Broadway play brings Yiddish resistance poetry back to life

Following a fire at Brooklyn’s nonprofit theater The Brick last week, where the show was originally scheduled to premiere, Torrey Townsend’s Jewish Plot will now have its world premiere at Theatre 154 in downtown Manhattan, on Christopher Street, this Wednesday, October 22. The 90-minute production will run through November 7. Directed by Sarah Hughes, the … After a fire in Brooklyn, ‘Jewish Plot’ will have its world-premiere in Manhattan this week