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10 Plays in 90 Minutes
- Sunday January 8th, 2006 in Baltimore
- Sunday January 15th, 2006 in NYC
Barefoot In The Park
- Sunday July 9th, 2006
- Monday July 10th, 2006
Isn't It Romantic
- Sunday December 24th, 2006
- Tuesday December 26th, 2006
Jewish Theatre Workshop honors the great American Jewish woman playwright Wendy Wasserstein (b. October 18, 1950 - d. January 30, 2006)
in the year of her passing in its production of "Isn't It Romantic". In this romantic comedy, girlhood friends, now pushing 30, return home to New York
City with Harvard graduate degrees and try to find both success and romance.
Ajax
- Sunday February 18th, 2007
- Tuesday February 20th, 2007
The heroes and monsters of Greek mythology are presented in capes and tights like Superman, fighting evil with strange weapons like
Batman, or struggling to find their place in the world like The Incredible Hulk. Comicbook Superheroes take the stage in the Jewish Theatre Workshop's
exciting and bold re-imagining of the Sophoclean Greek Tragedy AJAX seen through the eyes of American Jewish immigrants and comic book artist greats like
Stan Lee (a.k.a. Stanley Martin Lieber) and Jack Kirby (a.k.a. Jacob Kurtzberg).
The Cherry Orchard
- Sunday July 28th, 2007
- Tuesday July 31st, 2007
The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov is a tragic comedy about a cruel modern world of progress and profit evicting Madame Ranevskaya
and her family from their ancestral estate and the destruction of their Cherry Orchard. This production coincides with the Hebrew month of Av, in which we
remember and mourn the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem. The Cherry Orchard is a meditation on the theme of disposition and futility.
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Video Clips From The Cherry Orchard
Scene From Act 1
Scene From Act 2
Scene From Act 3
Scene From Act 4
A Bunch Of Little Miracles
A Festival Of One-Page Plays
- Thursday December 20th, 2007
- Sunday Decemeber 23rd, 2007
A collection of original one page plays from playwrights in Baltimore, Israel and around the world, tied to the common theme of
Miracles.
Read an article from the December 14th, 2007 edition of the Baltimore Jewish Times about the show:
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Videos of A Bunch Of Little Miracles
Miracle On Skis Part One
Miracle Work
Filthy Rodent
A New York Miracle
Gevalt and Battery
Bella\'s Dream
Miracle On Skis Part Two
Surprise
In Preparation For A Miracle
Miracle Of Light
Miracle On Skis Part Three
Small Acts of Kindness
- Sunday March 9th, 2008
- Tuesday March 11th, 2008
Jewish Theatre Workshop will explore the value of chesed (kindness) in Jewish tradition in Bara Swain's original play "Small Acts
of Kindness". In the play, six women in distress discover compassion, friendship and hope through seemingly insignificant gestures of generosity.
Wit
- Sunday July 13th, 2008
- Tuesday July 15th, 2008
Before being diagnosed with stage four metastatic ovarian cancer, Vivian Bearing Ph.D., rigorously studies mortality in the sonnets of
John Donne. Heroically, she will apply the same standards of rigorous scholarship to the question, "How are you feeling today?", while undergoing an
aggressive experimental chemotherapy treatment.
All In The Timing
-Thursday November 20th, 2008
-Sunday November 23rd, 2008
-Monday November 24th, 2008
The Jewish Theatre Workshop presents six zany one-acts by the hilarious David Ives. Extra wide aisles available for rolling.
This show is dedicated to the memory of Jennifer Leigh Johnson
The Mousetrap
-Sunday February 22nd, 2009
-Monday February 23rd, 2009
-Tuesday February 24th, 2009
Eight people are snowed in at a guest house...and one of them is a murderer! Join The Jewish Theatre Workshop for this thrilling murder
mystery by Agatha Christie!
-Sunday August 9th, 2009 - Matinee & Evening Performances
-Monday August 10th, 2009
-Tuesday August 11th, 2009
The classic Shakespeare play done by The Jewish Theatre Workshop.
Art
-Sunday November 1st, 2009
-Monday November 2nd, 2009
-Tuesday November 3rd, 2009
by Yasmina Reza Translated by Christopher Hampton
The Importance of Being Earnest
-Saturday January 2nd, 2010
-Sunday January 3rd, 2010
-Monday January 4th, 2010
The classic comedy of errors by Oscar Wilde shows the playwrights breadth of wit and satire through following the mistaken identities
of two young bachelors of London and their would-be lovers. The play, which has being an audience favorite for over a century, brings together an artful
language, colorful characters and timeless humor. Jack Worthington avoids his obligations in the country to roam the social world of upper-class London by
pretending to have a brother Ernest in the city (and also playing the role of Ernest while in the city). When his good friend, Algernon Moncrieff arrives
at his country home claiming to be his brother Ernest, only hilarity in the way of Oscar Wilde ensues.
Fires In The Mirror
-Saturday January 30th, 2010
-Sunday January 31st, 2010
In 1991, in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, a Hasidic man's car jumped a curb, killing Gavin Cato, a seven-year-old black
child. Later, in what appears to have been an act of retaliation on the part of a faction of the black community, Yankel Rosenbaum, a Hasidic rabbinical
student, was stabbed and killed. The ensuing riots that wracked Crown Heights' previous atmosphere of tolerance for its divergent cultures made national
headlines and pointed to the growing friction in racial and cultural relations across America. Drawing verbatim from a series of over fifty interviews with
Crown Heights' residents, politicians, activists, religious leaders, gangs, street dwellers, victims and perpetrators alike, Anna Deavere Smith has created
a theatrical event distilling the lives and voices of twenty-six of the incident's survivors into a visionary amalgam, the import of which touches upon
every American regardless of race, color or beliefs.
Spinning Into Butter
-Thursday March 11th, 2010
-Sunday March 14th, 2010
-Monday March 15th, 2010
A play that explores the dangers of both racism and political correctness in America today. When one of the few African American
students at liberal Belmont College begins receiving hate mail, the campus erupts, first with shock, then with mutual recrimination as faculty and students
alike try to prove their own tolerance by condemning one another.
At first the Sycamores seem mad, but it is not long before we realize that if they are mad, the rest of the world is madder. In
contrast to these delightful people are the unhappy Kirbys. The plot shows how Tony, attractive young son of the Kirbys, falls in love with Alice Sycamore
and brings his parents to dine at the Sycamore home on the wrong evening. The shock sustained by the Kirbys, who are invited to eat cheap food, shows
Alice that marriage with Tony is out of the question. The Sycamores, however, though sympathetic to Alice, find it hard to realize her point of view.
Meantime, Tony, who knows the Sycamores are right and his own people wrong, will not give her up, and in the end Mr. Kirby is converted to the happy
madness of the Sycamores, particularly since he happens in during a visit by an ex-Grand Duchess, earning her living as a waitress. No mention has as yet
been made of the strange activities of certain members of the household engaged in the manufacture of fireworks; nor of the printing press set up in the
parlor; nor of Rheba the maid and her friend Donald; nor of Grandpa's interview with the tax collector when he tells him he doesn't believe in the income
tax.
Check out a Behind The Scenes look at "You Can't Take It With You"
A Modest Suggestion
-Saturday November 20th, 2010
Four business men sit in the conference room looking at the newest item on the docket: do they kill all of the Jews or not? This
satirical new play, performed for the first time in Baltimore, takes a seriously funny look at one of the unfunniest aspects of humanity: hatred and murder
of others for no reason. Like Jonathan Swift did in his famous "A Modest Proposal," playwright Ken Kaissar asks humanity to look at itself in the mirror to
consider the absurdities of genocide in any form.
Performance will be followed by a dessert reception and a discussion of the play with the playwright.
Hannan, a brilliant talmudic scholar, falls in love with Leah, the daughter of Sender, a rich merchant. Sender opposes a marriage between the two, as he
prefers a rich suitor for his daughter. In desperation, Hannan decides to study the mystical arts of the Kabbalah in the hopes of finding a way to win
back Leah, whom he feels is his predestined bride. When Sender announces that he has found a suitable bridegroom for Leah, Hannan drops dead in a state of
mystical ecstasy. On the day of her wedding, Leah says in a man’s voice “I have returned to my predestined bride, and I shall not leave her.” She has been
possessed by the Dybbuk.
Novelist Eric Weiss, critically celebrated but unsuccessful, "arrives" when his new, autobiographical novel becomes a bestseller. An outsider all his life, he is suddenly
on the inside of everything: town cars, television studios, and the Sunday book review. But as his career takes off, his personal life suffers.
The 1997 Tony Award Winning play by the author of "Driving Miss Daisy", "The Last Night of Ballyhoo" tells the story of the Freitag family of Atlanta, GA in December 1939.
The secular German Jewish family has been in the US for 150 years, is completely assimilated and is only interested at this moment on who will be taking who to Ballyhoo,
the big German Jewish social event of the winter season. All seems normal until Joe Farkas, a New Yorker from Brooklyn who grew up with Shabbat, Passover and Yiddish
arrives to work for the family. This comedy takes a humor filled view of what it means to be Jewish as it challenges the Freitag family to explore its Judaism beyond
the facade of its social and worldly existence.
Neil Simon's comedy Lost In Yonkers is a coming of age story that focuses on brothers Jay and Arty who are left in the care of their intimidating, immigrant Grandma Kurnitz and their sweet but mentally slow Aunt Bella in Yonkers, New York while their father Eddie works as a traveling salesman to pay off debts he incurred following the death of his wife. This mad-cap comedy with a heart also includes Uncle Louie, a small-time crook on the run and their Aunt Gert who speaks the second half of her sentences while breathing in. The family, learns what it means to be a family through hardship and care.
Uncle Motti and the Seven Dwarfs
-Sunday June 17th - 1pm
-Sunday June 24th - 1pm
-Wednesday June 27th - 7pm
-Sunday July 1st - 1pm RESCHEDULED TO Thursday July 5th - 7pm Due to weather problems
Come see the sequel to JTW's highly successful children's show from 2010 "Uncle Motti Tells a Story (or Three)". Uncle Motti is once again called upon to babysit his niece Shayna, and it's time for a bedtime story. This time around, Shayna's little brother Shuey is able to stay up late enough for the bedtime story too, and after a little bit of conflict between the two, Uncle Motti decides to tell them the story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Of course, Uncle Motti can be counted on to always tell it with a twist (and not the Disney-fied way), and the comedy begins....
The Tragedy of Macbeth
-Thursday August 9th - 7pm
-Sunday August 12th - 2pm
-Monday August 13th - 7pm
-Tuesday August 14th - 7pm
-Wednesday August 15th - 7pm
-Thursday August 16th - 7pm
-Sunday August 19th - 2pm
Join JTW this summer as we conclude this season with our take on Shakespeare’s shortest and bloodiest tragedy, Macbeth. The story revolves around a brave Scottish general who receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth sets about a series of murders which increase and consolidate his power. Racked with guilt and paranoia, he soon becomes a tyrannical ruler who will do almost anything to keep his throne and protect himself from enmity and suspicion. The mayhem swiftly takes all involved into realms of arrogance, madness, the supernatural, and death. Come witness the spiral downward as only the Bard can tell it, and as only a world of Steampunk can bring it to life.
The Curious Savage
-Thursday February 7th - 7pm
-Saturday February 9th - 8pm
-Sunday February 10th - 2pm
-Tuesday February 12th - 7pm
-Thursday February 14th - 7pm
-Saturday February 16th - 8pm
-Sunday February 17th - 2pm
"The Curious Savage" tells the tale of Mrs. Ethel P. Savage, who inherits a business empire worth ten million dollars from her husband. Wanting to create a "happiness fund" in his name to help people realize their dreams, no matter how foolish, she sells the family businesses and converts the cash to negotiable securities, concealing their location from her grown stepchildren. Believing the money to be their birthright, her stepchildren commit her to a "sanatorium" hoping to "bring her to her senses" and reveal the location of the money. There, she bonds instantly with the other "guests" of the institution who, believing in the justice of her cause, conspire with Mrs. Savage to confound her stepchildren and achieve her dream.
"...the game cast of community actors you'll meet at the Weinberg JCC Straus Auditorium believe in it and will help playgoers suspend disbelief long enough for an evening of fun, a few laughs, and maybe even a tug or two on the heartstrings." Read the review of "The Curious Savage" written by DC Metro Theater Arts' John Harding here!
Red
-Thursday June 13th - 7pm
-Sunday June 16th - 2pm
-Tuesday June 18th - 7pm
-Thursday June 20th - 7pm
-Sunday June 23rd - 2pm
Winner of the 2010 Tony Award for Best Play.
Master abstract expressionist Mark Rothko has just landed the biggest commission in the history of modern art, a series of murals for New York's famed Four Seasons Restaurant. In the two fascinating years that follow, Rothko works feverishly with his young assistant, Ken, in his studio on the Bowery. But when Ken gains the confidence to challenge him, Rothko faces the agonizing possibility that his crowning achievement could also become his undoing. Raw and provocative, RED is a searing portrait of an artist's ambition and vulnerability as he tries to create a definitive work for an extraordinary setting.
"Intense and exciting...a study in artist appreciation, a portrait of an angry and brilliant mind that asks you to feel the shape and texture of thoughts...RED captures the dynamic relationship between an artist and his creations." -NY Times.
"Directed by Ariella McCown, this production essentially becomes a portrait of its own, depicting the artistic ambition and vulnerability of Rothko as he attempts to create his career defining work for an extraordinary setting." Read the review of "Red" written by DC Metro Theater Arts' Amanda Gunther here!
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead
-Thursday August 8th - 7pm
-Sunday August 11th - 1pm
-Tuesday August 13th - 7pm
-Thursday August 15th - 7pm
-Sunday August 18th - 1pm
Acclaimed as a modern dramatic masterpiece, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead is the fabulously inventive tale of Hamlet as told from the worm's-eve view of the bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two minor characters in Shakespeare's play. In Tom Stoppard's best-known work, this Shakespearean Laurel and Hardy finally get a chance to take the lead role, but do so in a world where reality and illusion intermix, and where fate leads our two heroes to a tragic but inevitable end.
"Something's funny in the state of Denmark. Rottenly funny too as the Jewish Theatre Workshop presents Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead. Directed by Brad Norris and Ariella McCown, this irreverent approach to Shakespeare's Hamlet gives audiences an existential, albeit comical, look into the minds of the servants who have been assigned to the maddened prince."
Read the review of "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead" written by DC Metro Theater Arts' Amanda Gunther here!
An Ideal Husband
-Sunday August 17th - 2pm
-Sunday August 17th - 7pm
-Wednesday August 20th - 7pm
-Sunday August 24th - 2pm
-Sunday August 24th - 7pm
How far would a person go to ruin another's reputation? How far would a person go to protect it? Oscar wilde explores these questions with his usual wit and withering flair in "An Ideal Husband".
Game Show
-Sunday August 2nd - 2pm
-Wednesday August 5th - 7pm
-Sunday August 9th - 2pm
-Sunday August 16th - 2pm
This comedy goes behind the scenes and then in front of the cameras as it follows five fascinating contestants: a fidgety Vietnam veteran; a know-it-all senator's assistant; a cocky young filmmaker; a dizzy housewife/author; and a bubbly senior citizen, from the time they meet backstage at a popular game show until one of them wins the grand prize. Who wins the big money is one of Game Show's several compelling subplots. Another is the possibility of a rekindled romance between one of the contestants and the show's production assistant. And then there are the hilarious antics of the game show's narcissistic emcee and his beautiful bimbo of an assistant. Who was the only bachelor president? What boy dubbed Lauren Becall's voice when she sang in To Have and Have Not? What was unusual about Babe Ruth's uniform when he hit 60 home runs? These and other intriguing questions are answered during Game Show, a warm and witty look at an American institution, the television game show.
