Theo Bikel and Mike Burstein: Avi Hoffman Reflects on His Mentors
EX393_3530 Avi Hoffman, actor, reflects on his role models who became his colleagues in Yiddish theatre. He particularly remembers going to see his very first Broadway play as a young boy and the...
View ArticleOne Foot in Shushan, One in Warsaw: Reflections on Manger's Megillah
EX503_3055 Motl Didner, Associate Artistic Director of the Folksbiene National Yiddish Theatre, speaks about his love for Itzik Manger's "The Megillah of Itzik Manger," a play that blends the classic...
View Article"We Had to Forge Our Link Ourselves": A New Generation of Yiddish Theatre
EX503_3056 Motl Didner, Associate Artistic Director of the Folksbiene National Yiddish Theatre, speaks about the mixed blessing of working in the Yiddish theater without having been trained by its...
View ArticleYiddish Theater Has Never Been One Single Thing
EX503_3073 Motl Didner, Associate Artistic Director of the Folksbiene National Yiddish Theatre, explains that "Yiddish theater" has never been a monolithic, singular entity as some would allege, but...
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