Untitles Theater Co #61's Festival Of Jewish Theater & Ideas Enters Final Week

Untitled Theater Company #61 enters its FINAL WEEK of the Festival of Jewish Theater and Ideas. There is still time to make it down and catch some shows.

The Burning Bush, Burning Bush Productions, Toronto, Canada

by Tracey Erin Smith directed by Anita La Selva at Theater Three, 311 W. 43rd St, 3rd Fl

Thursday, June 11, at 10pm

Yentl meets Showgirls in this award winning one-woman traveling spiritual roadshow. Rabbinical student Barbara Baumowitz teams up with exotic dancers to spread their religion in this new version of an old-time revival. Critics Pick in Backstage, Audience Choice Award in Frigid NYC and Best of the Toronto Fringe Festival.
Cities of Light
Open Hart Productions, new York

directed by John Richard Thompson at the Center for Jewish History, 15 W. 16th St.

Wednesday, June 10, at 6:30pm

Blazing lights flash bright, then dark, in the Cabarets of 1930's Berlin, Paris, Warsaw and Tel Aviv. Jewish artists on the move thrill audiences with their Weimar tangos, Paris Dada shimmies, tribal Yiddish romps, and lullabies of Tel Aviv.

Off-Broadway and international chanteuse, actress, and playwright Rebecca Joy Fletcher joins forces with Backstage Bistro award winning director John-Richard Thompson and Broadway veteran Bob Goldstone. Together, they create a theatrical cabaret-a sparkling kaleidoscope-that pays irreverent homage to an era of illumination and darkness.
The Dig: Death, Genesis & the Double Helix
What's the Story?, Los Angeles

written and directed by Edward Einhorn
Music by Alexander S. Wiener and Henry Akona

at Theater Three, 311 W. 43rd St, 3rd Fl

Thursday, June 11 at 3pm

An American archaeologist is summoned to a dig in the ancient Arab-Hebrew town of Jaffa. They've found something big-something that could change everything-and she's the only one who can tell them what it is. And her mother just died. And there's a lizard in her bathtub. The Middle East. Matriarchs. Cruelty. It's a comedy.
Doctors Jane and Alexander
Untitled Theater Company #61, New York

written and directed by Edward Einhorn
Music by Alexander S. Wiener and Henry Akona

at Theater Three, 311 W. 43rd St, 3rd Fl

This week:
Friday, June 12, at 9pm
Saturday, June 13, at 6pm
Sunday, June 14, at 1pm

Using found, fabricated, and occasionally finagled text, the playwright explores the life of his grandfather Alexander S. Wiener, the co-discoverer of the Rh factor in blood, through interviews with his mother, a psychologist who recently retired due to a debilitating stroke. An examination of art, science, ambition, and achievement, told with humor and song.
Hard Love
Genesis Stage, Atlanta

by Motti Lerner
directed by Susan Reid

at Theater Three, 311 W. 43rd St, 3rd Fl

Wednesday, June 10, at 3pm
Thursday, June 11, at 3pm

In this fiercely romantic drama, Hannah and Zvi are reunited after divorcing twenty years earlier. Raised in Jerusalem's ultra-Orthodox Mea Shearim, the couple ended their marriage when Zvi turned his back on Judaism and Hannah did not. Now the teenage children from their second marriages have become romantically involved, forcing Hannah and Zvi back into each others' lives The first-ever full staging in New York of the work of noted Israeli playwright Motti Lerner.
Mentshn
New Worlds Theatre Project, New York

by Sholem Aleichem
Translated by Ellen Perecman & Yermiyahu Ahron Taub
Adapted by Ellen Perecman & Clay McLeod Chapman
Directed by Marc Geller

ENGLISH-LANGUAGE PREMIERE

at Theater Three

Wednesday, June 10, at 10pm
Friday, June 12, at 7pm
Saturday, June 13, at 2pm

On playwright Sholem Aleichem's 150th birthday, the first English translation of an old play: Jobs are hard to come by, so Madame Gold's servants have limited options. To keep their jobs, they have to be willing to maintain the status quo by relinquishing their self-respect and free will. But how much abuse can they be expected to tolerate? Servants are people too, aren't they?
The Most Radiant Beauty
Evolve Company, New York

written and directed by Tanya Khordoc & Barry Weil

WORLD PREMIERE

at Theater Three, 311 W. 43rd St, 3rd Fl.

Wednesday, June 10, at 8pm
Saturday, June 13, at 10:30pm

A one-act to be performed with Scenes from a Misunderstanding.

God said "Let there be light." Einstein showed us what it could do. In this multimedia collage, puppeteers Khordoc and Weil use found text to explore Einstein, Genesis, the Atomic Bomb and the life-altering power of knowledge.
Scenes from a Misunderstanding
WalkingShadow, New York

by Carey Harrison
directed by Henry Akona

WORLD PREMIERE

at Theater Three, 311 W. 43rd St.

Wednesday, June 10, at 8pm
Saturday, June 13, at 10:30pm

A one-act to be performed with The Most Radiant Beauty.

The simmering differences between two professors come to a head: has one of them delayed replying to a letter on the subject of religion, or did the original letter-writer delay posting it? What would such delays signify? From humble beginnings, titanic quarrels are born - especially when the aggravated parties are Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung.
10 Imaginings of Sarah & Hagar
Theater Ariel, Philadelphia

by Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer
music by Juliet I. Spitzer
directed by Deborah Baer-Moses

WORLD PREMIERE

at Theater Three, 311 W. 43rd St, 3rd Fl

Wednesday, June 10, at 6pm
Saturday, June 13, at 4pm

A theatrical interpretation in ten scenes ("imaginings",) of the story of the mothers of two great nations. Sarah and Hagar. 10 Imaginings is journey through the complex relationship between these two women, their man and their sons, exploring themes that continue to take center stage in the world today.
To Pay the Price
Theatre Or, Durham, North Carolina

by Peter-Adrian Cohen
Directed by Robert Kalfin

WORLD PREMIERE at Theater Three

Saturday, June 13, at 8:30pm
Sunday, June 14, at 3:30pm (SOLD OUT)

Based on the letters of Yoni Netanyahu and the personal accounts of the men he led and the woman he loved, To Pay the Price weaves a complex portrait of an extraordinary man struggling to lice and ordinary life. Reliving one of the greatest military rescue missions of all time - the raid to free hostages of a hijacked airliner from Entebbe - the play illuminates the toll to a nation of a never-ending war. It is the inspiring story of a genuine hero who grapples with the very notion of what it means to be a hero.