Sha un shtil! A New Yiddish Theater Experiment
Yiddish Arts and Academics Assn. of N. America
Cost: $15 - $120
Join our experimental Yiddish course featuring Itzik Manger s Megile Lider . Our innovative format will include elements of leyenkrayz and shmues, and special guests, including Mike Burstyn. We will meet twice a week for 4 weeks and integrate intermediate and advanced students. This will be the first in a series of exciting Yiddish Theatre workshops offered by the Yiddish Theater Academy, newly opened at YAAANA.
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Sha un shtil! A New Yiddish Theater Experiment
Yiddish Arts and Academics Assn. of N. America
Cost: $15 - $120
Join our experimental Yiddish course featuring Itzik Manger s Megile Lider . Our innovative format will include elements of leyenkrayz and shmues, and special guests, including Mike Burstyn. We will meet twice a week for 4 weeks and integrate intermediate and advanced students. This will be the first in a series of exciting Yiddish Theatre workshops offered by the Yiddish Theater Academy, newly opened at YAAANA.
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Virtual Theater Review: 'Megillah Cycle': A Timeless Tale, Strongly Told theepochtimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from theepochtimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
One year after the onset of the pandemic, most American theaters are languishing in the dark. But performers are still competing for our eyeballs through ever-more-sophisticated slates of virtual entertainment. Polished, highly-produced events in the vein of “Saturday Night Seder” have attempted to reproduce the intimacy and immediacy of live theater, lulling us via special effects into believing that we’ve emerged from our crumb-speckled couches into the darkened auditoriums of yore.
Until I tuned into “Megillah Cycle,” a modernist Yiddish take on the Purim spiel staged virtually by the Congress for Jewish Culture, I didn’t realize I’d been craving the opposite. I wanted virtual theater that acknowledged that making art from home is an inherently weird enterprise. I wanted virtual theater that reflected the social isolation of this moment rather than ignoring it. I wanted virtual theater that didn’t pretend to be something else.
Virtual Production Of MEGILLAH CYCLE Premieres Today With All-Star International Cast broadwayworld.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from broadwayworld.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.