The National Yiddish
Theatre – Folksbiene
The National
Yiddish Theatre - Folksbiene held their annual Cabaret
Dinner November 22 at Bohemian National Hall. The gala
honored Five-time Tony Award-winning Broadway producer
and critically acclaimed author and playwright, Stewart
F. Lane and holocaust survivor and owner of Martin
Greenfield Clothiers, Martin Greenfield.
Lane has War Horse
and Priscilla Queen of the Desert currently running on
Broadway. Greenfield has created clothes for
celebrities, presidents, politicians and most recently,
for the cast of the Emmy Award-winning series Boardwalk
Empire.
The event featured
performances by Judy Blazer, Judy Kaye, Elmore James,
Stuart Zagnit, andTony and Emmy-Winning Actor, Ron
Rifkin. A celebration of light and hope, the gala
benefit also featured performances by young Folksbiene
company members -- some in their teens -- who are being
trained and nurtured by the Drama Desk Award-winning
company to carry the torch of Yiddish culture, with all
its rich, varied and profoundly humanist traditions.
The Cabaret Dinner benefits The National Yiddish Theatre
– Folksbiene, the nation’s only professional Yiddish
theatre, and the longest continuously producing Yiddish
theatre in the world. Now in its historic 96th
consecutive season, Folksbiene presents plays, concerts
and literary events in English and Yiddish, with English
and Russian supertitles accompanying all performances.
The company’s
two-fold mission is to preserve the legacy of the
Yiddish theatre -- dating back to the late 19th century
in Europe -- and to add to this legacy by developing new
work. Through its numerous accommodations for
non-Yiddish speakers, its outreach to underserved
audiences in and outside of New York, and its
cultivation of new work and young actors, the company
has significantly broadened and diversified its
audience.
For more information see:
www.folksbiene.org