The Essence: A Yiddish Theater Dim Sum at the Community Synagogue


The New Yiddish Rep present The Essence: A Yiddish Theater Dim Sum, created and performed by Allen Lewis Rickman, Steve Sterner and Yelena Shmulenson-Rickman, at the Community Synagogue on 29 Jun 2008.

The Essence: A Yiddish Theater Dim Sum: The absolutely complete history of the Yiddish theater in eighty minutes. Scenes, songs, and stories from the sublime to the preposterous; in English and Yiddish with supertitles.

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