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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

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

This March, the Museum of Jewish Heritage is staging three very different performances that circle the same big question: what happens to Jewish stories as they’re handed down, reshaped and reinterpreted by the next generation? On March 15, pianist Roger Peltzman takes the stage with Dedication, a solo theatrical and musical work rooted in his … The Museum of Jewish Heritage is mounting three distinct performances about Jewish memory this March

On Monday, February 23, some of the biggest Jewish names in Hollywood will join forces on the Carnegie Hall stage to present “Letters, Light and Love,” a sweeping production centered on letters written about Israel across the centuries—from figures like Golda Meir and Julius Caesar—alongside other untold stories of ordinary people, according to an official … All-star Jewish cast brings “Letters, Light and Love” to Carnegie Hall to raise funds for rebuilding Kibbutz Be’eri

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

In Oklahoma Samovar, a new play by Alice Eve Cohen currently having its world premiere Off-Off-Broadway at experimental theater La MaMa (74 East Fourth Street), a young woman named Emily inherits a mysterious instruction from her recently deceased mother: to scatter her ashes on a stranger’s farm in Oklahoma, a place she’s never heard of … This new play tells the story of the Oklahoma Land Run’s only Jewish family

Madam, a new opera premiering at the Gallery Particulier in Brooklyn this Friday, is worthy of attention for several reasons. Let’s start with the setting, which is anything but conventional: for the production, the gallery will transform into a speakeasy-style parlor and ticket holders are encouraged to don their 1920s best, making for a fully … An immersive new opera about a Russian immigrant in Manhattan is premiering in Brooklyn this week

Scheduled to run through December 6 at the Greenwich House Theater in the West Village, Other is a relatively new Off-Broadway play written by, and essentially about, Ari’el Stachel, the 34-year-old actor who won the 2018 Tony Award for his performance in The Band’s Visit. In the show, Stachel explores the identity struggles he’s faced … Ari’el Stachel stars in this new contemporary autobiographical one-man play about being an Arab Jew

The Matriarchs, by Liba Vaynberg, is a new play that follows six modern Orthodox girls—each one loosely inspired by the women of the Torah that they share names with—as they navigate adolescence, adulthood and everything that comes along with growing up… including dips into unorthodoxy. Directed by Dina Vovsi, the 100-minute production opened earlier this … This new play brings the women of the Torah into the 21st century

This fall, the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene brings Hannah Senesh’s remarkable story to the stage in a powerful one-woman play. Senesh, a young Jewish woman who escaped Hungary in 1939 for British Mandate Palestine, joined the Haganah—the main Jewish paramilitary organization in the territory from 1920 to 1948—and later volunteered for a daring Special Operations … This one-woman Off-Broadway play tells the story of a Jewish paratrooper who fought the Nazis