New Yiddish Rep's April schedule presents two play's and a vaudeville show

The New Yiddish Rep has released its April schedule which will present two play's and a vaudeville play.

• Yiddish Vaudeville: The Remix
  Creator: Shane Baker
  Performer: Shane Baker
  SynopsisAn evening of magic, music, and material from Yiddish vaudeville.
  Performed in English and Yiddish with supertitles.
  Date: Wed 23 Apr

Missouri-born and Texas-educated Mr. Baker's grew up next door to vaudeville veteran H. Claude Enslow, who mentored him in magic; he is an authority on the plays of Henry Fielding, and the first gentile Executive Director of the Congress For Jewish Culture, a non-profit organization which promotes Yiddish language and literature.

• Snow People
  Playwright: Av Inlender
  cast: Rosina Fernhoff.
  Synopsis: A one-woman play about Nazi looting of art treasures and Swiss complicity in the theft.
  (Performed in English).
  Date: Mon 28 Apr

"Theater in English is't really our bailiwick,"� said Artistic Director David Mandelbaum, but I saw Snow People a few months ago and was blown away by it. This play needs to be seen by as wide an audience as possible, and if it takes us to present it, well, azoy geyt es ('so be it')."

• Yosl Rakover Speaks To God
  Playwright: Adapted from a 1946 short story by Zvi Kolitz
  cast: David Mandelbaum
  Synopsis: The first-ever one-man drama in Yiddish: a Warsaw ghetto resistance fighter who argues with his creator.
  There is supertitle translation
  Date: Thu 1 May

is adapted from a 1946 short story by future Broadway and film producer Zvi Kolitz. The story was framed as a written testimony found in the ruins of the ghetto; it was reprinted several times without authorial attribution, and was convincing enough to be taken for authentic.

Admission policy, 'Pay As You Exit:' no fee is charged up front, and patrons are invited to donate whatever they like (envelopes are provided inside programs) as they leave. "It's worked pretty well for us so far,"� said Artistic Director David Mandelbaum " -- we usually end up collecting more than if we just charged a regular admission. I guess people like what we do."