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Apr 07, 2020

Shtumer shabes: A New Play by Rokhl Kafrissen

Amanda (Miryem-Khaye) Seigel

An interview with the playwright by the DYTP’s Amanda (Miryem-Khaye) Seigel.
Mar 11, 2020

Biz 120: The Yiddish Artists and Friends Actors’ Club at 85

Amanda (Miryem-Khaye) Seigel

85 years of the Yiddish Artists and Friends Actors’ Club…
Feb 13, 2020

Interview with Joshua Horowitz on the Orchestration of Bas-Sheve

Jake Marmer, John Schott

​In February 2019, Josh Horowitz was sent the manuscript of Henekh Kon’s piano and vocal score of the only known pre-Holocaust Yiddish opera, Bas-Sheve.
Jan 23, 2020

Interview: Alicia Svigals and Donald Sosin on Their Film Score for The Ancient Law

Mark Slobin

Alicia Svigals and Donald Sosin on scoring a Weimar-era film about a backwoods Jewish boy whose talent leads him to show business success and possible romance with a well-placed Gentile woman.
Dec 20, 2019

Magic and Melody Delight in a Yiddish Fairytale Reborn

Debra Caplan

Debra Caplan reviews The Sorceress / Di Kishefmakherin at the National Yiddish Theatre – Folksbiene.
Nov 06, 2019

Theatre: A Sketch

Jessica Kirzane

Jessica Kirzane’s translation and introduction of ​Miriam Karpilove’s “Theatre.”
Sep 04, 2019

The Yiddish Theatre Time Machine

Zachary Baker, Joel Berkowitz, Sonia Gollance, Barbara Henry, Faith Jones, C. Tova Markenson, David Mazower, Alyssa Quint, Amanda (Miryem-Khaye) Seigel, Nick Underwood

The DYTP team on the performances they would have liked to witness.
Aug 21, 2019

An Interview with Daniel Galay

Ellen Cassedy

​Daniel Galay is a prolific playwright, composer, and pianist living in Israel.
Jun 29, 2019

“A Piquant Curiosity”: The Gender-Bending Drama Yo a man, nit a man

Zachary Baker

Read about the gender-bending play Yo a man, nit a man (Yes a Man, Not a Man).
Long Form
Jun 25, 2019

Top 10 Queerest Moments in the Yiddish Theatre: An Illustrated List in Honor of Pride Month 2019

Amanda (Miryem-Khaye) Seigel

A DYTP top 10 list.
May 17, 2019

Grand Opera for Yiddish Speakers in Early Twentieth-Century America! Who Knew?!

Daniela Smolov Levy

In the spring of 1904, New York witnessed the unlikely spectacle of a musical-dramatic adaptation of Richard Wagner’s Parsifal—in Yiddish.
Apr 30, 2019

Dystopia on the Verge: Or Why a 1934 Yiddish Play About Charlie Chaplin Still Matters

Debra Caplan

Somewhere, in an obscure port city in Europe…