Meet the people who made Yiddish theatre happen: on stage, behind the scenes, and in the audience.
Yiddish audiences were famously vocal, and the galleries of Yiddish theatres could be raucous places. The annals of the Yiddish stage are filled with colorful tales ...
In many respects the Yiddish theatre belonged to its actors. From the early days of the professional Yiddish stage, the most popular actors were treated like gods, a...
The auteur director--the great visionary in the mold of a Stanislavsky, Meyerhold, or Reinhardt--did not figure into the early years of the professional Yiddish stag...
The ranks of Yiddish scene designers boast some world-famous names, most notably Marc Chagall and Boris Aronson. While Chagall went on to Paris and Aronson to Broadw...
The Yiddish theatre was blessed with an abundance of musical talent. The first generation of professional Yiddish theatre composers often came of age in prestigious ...
As in many cultures, critics often played an ongoing game of tug-of-war with playwrights, performers, and audiences. Yiddish critics, often coming from the Polish an...
Working behind the scenes, the owners, managers, and proprietors of Yiddish theatres rarely get the attention paid to other personnel--though a number of noted actor...
Many of the most important Yiddish writers of all time turned at least a hand to playwriting. For some it was their primary focus, for others it played second fiddle...