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All God's Chillun Got Wings (Shvartse Geto), 1924
This item is a review by Zalmen Reyzen of the Vilna Troupe's adaptation of Eugene O' Neill'sAll God's Chillun Got Wings,an Expressionist play about miscegenation inspired from an old negro spiritual. Arguably one of O'Neill's most controversial of…
The Rising Fame of Kaminska, 1909
This newspaper article appeared in the Forward in August of 1909, on Kaminska's arrival in the United States. As the editor explains in his introduction to an interview the reporter conducted with Kaminska, the newspaper sent the reporter to the boat…
Love and Eros, Anton Wildgans
Love and Eros is a four-act play by the Austrian playwright and poet Anton Wildgans (1881-1932). Wildgans’ work mingles expressionism with a focus on daily life.
Three acts or four: the publication of The Dybbuk in Yiddish
The Dybbuk was published for the first time in 1920 after the playwright's death.Edited by the photographer Alter Kacyzne, himself a writer and playwright, it was included in a multi-volume edition,The Collected Works of S. Y.An-ski. An-ski entrusted…
Boston/Sacco and Vanzetti, 1933
Based on Bernhard Blume’sBoston(original title,Im Namen des Volkes![In the Name of the People!]), Boston or Sacco and Vanzetti premiered in 1933 in a small theater on Warsaw's Dluga Street. The play was aboutNicolaSaccoand…
Sambatyon Cabaret Theater
Sambatyon was established in Vilnain1926 but moved to Warsaw several months later. It was made up exclusively of professional performers—Yitskhok Feld, Khane Grosberg (1900–?), Khane Levin(1900–1969), Khayim Sandler, and others—under the direction of…
Yiddish Theater Takes Root in America, 1883
Although the America Yiddish theater would not gather institutional momentum unitl the late 1880s, Boris Thomashefsky (1866-1939) is rightly credited with spearheading the first Yiddish theatrical productions in the United States. Thomashefsky had…
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