The Essence: A Yiddish Theatre Dim Sum

Event Details

Time: July 11, 2011 from 8pm to 9:30pm
Location: Yiddish Book Center
Street: 1021 West Street
City/Town: Amherst
Website or Map: http://support.yiddishbookcen…
Phone: 413-256-4900
Event Type: theater
Organized By: Yiddish Book Center
Latest Activity: Jul 10, 2011

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Event Description

Designed to be “99 44/100% nostalgia-free,” The Essence: A Yiddish Theatre Dim Sum introduces Yiddish language and Yiddish theater to new audiences via scenes from plays, songs, anecdotal material, episodes from Jewish history, and “irrelevant interludes”. No language skills required (except maybe a little English). Featuring A Serious Man’s Allen Lewis Rickman and Yelena Shmulenson and Broadway veteran Michael Garin, the show has played to sold-out houses at New York’s New Yiddish Rep and to standing ovations in Sweden. Reservations suggested.

More fun than Yom Kippur, and a whole lot hipper. -- Jackie Hoffman

Cost: $18/member; $22/nonmember; $11/student