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Rigoletto
Rigoletto
12/7 - 12/15/2024


Come one, come all! Voted as audience choice for our 2019-2020 season, this circus version of “Rigoletto,” complete with circus band and bawdy new text ...

Prayer For The French Republic
Prayer For The French Republic
10/30 - 11/24/2024


The Benhamou family has lived in Paris for five generations. A visit from their American cousin, Molly, is quickly overshadowed by an antisemitic attack on ...


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Past Shows

Prayer For The French Republic
Prayer For The French Republic
10/30 - 11/24/2024


The Benhamou family has lived in Paris for five generations. A visit from their American cousin, Molly, is quickly overshadowed by an antisemitic attack on ...

The Cradle Will Rock
The Cradle Will Rock
10/5 - 10/13/2024


This famous and infamous 1936 American musical masterpiece became a thundering piece of American history when governments and unions alike tried to ban its legendary ...

How To Be a Korean Woman
How To Be a Korean Woman
9/12 - 9/22/2024


*How to Be a Korean Woman* is a hilarious, heartfelt, and personal telling of Korean-American adoptee Sun Mee Chomet‘s search for her birth family in ...

The Hatmaker's Wife
The Hatmaker's Wife
6/5 - 6/25/2024


Magic and realism collide in this modern fable about learning to love. A young woman moves in with her boyfriend, and when she has trouble ...

Hester Street
Hester Street
3/27 - 4/21/2024


The world premiere of Hester Street – the theatrical adaptation of the beloved 1975 film by Joan Micklin Silver – marks the largest production Theater ...

Moses
Moses
12/1 - 12/24/2023


by Michele Lowe Directed by Johanna Gruenhut DECEMBER 1 – DECEMBER 24, 2023 How do you start over after everything you know has been erased? ...

See You Tomorrow
See You Tomorrow
11/14 - 11/22/2023


by Iris Bahr Directed by Iris Bahr NOVEMBER 15 – NOVEMBER 22, 2023 A mother-daughter relationship unfolds in award-winning comedian/actor Iris Bahr’s new autobiographical work. ...

The Chameleon
The Chameleon
10/11 - 11/5/2023


by Jenny Rachel Weiner Directed by Ellie Heyman OCTOBER 11 – NOVEMBER 5, 2023 Nothing says Jewish Christmas more than Chinese takeout. The food tastes ...

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