"Mayn Tatns Beys-Din Shtib", NYC, 5 May 2015
Borscht Ball
Tuesday, May 5, 2015, 7:00pm
Baruch Performing Arts Center
New York, New York 10010
The National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene and The City University of New York
present a staged reading of
Mayn Tatns Beys-Din Shtub (Tales From My Father’s Rabbinical Court)
Based on the memoirs of Isaac Bashevis Singer and adapted by David Licht for The Folksbiene in 1972 as a dramatization of the short stories serialized in the Yiddish Daily Forverts set in the Warsaw of Singer’s childhood years which pit modernism against tradition as Europe marched towards the first World War.
With: Jeremiah Burch, Alec Burko, Matthew 'Motl' Didner, Itzy Firestone, Mo Hanan, Richard Kass , Stuart Marshall Hershkowitzl, Adam B. Shapiro, Carolyn Seiff, Amanda Miryem-Khaye Seigel, Lane Silberstein and Suzanne Toren.