National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene

Winners of the 2024 Drama Desk Awards for Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Off-Off-Broadway

In a star-studded ceremony at NYU Skirball Center beginning at 6:15 tonight (Monday, June 10) and co-hosted by Sutton Foster and Aaron Tveit, winners of the 68th annual Drama Desk Awards – the only...

The real-life story of Nazi brutality decimating the ‘Harmony’ at Off-Broadway’s NYTF

Following an extended pandemic delay, the highly anticipated production of Harmony: A New Musical, written by multi-award winner Barry Manilow (music and arrangements) and longtime collaborator Bruce...

A heartrending reminder never to forget in New York City Opera’s ‘The Garden of the Finzi-Continis’ at the Museum of Jewish Heritage

Opening last night on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the world premiere of the American operatic adaptation of The Garden of the Finzi- Continis by Ricky Ian Gordon (composer) and Michael...

Celebrate MLK Day with a free virtual concert from Off-Broadway’s NYTF and a music release from Miri Ben-Ari and Flo Rida

In honor of Martin Luther King Day on Monday are two free online offerings – one a rebroadcast of an annual concert, the other a new music/video release – that capture shared experiences of the...

A Chanukah celebration of Jewish food and song with ‘ESN’ from NYC’s National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene

National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene (NYTF) is dishing up some exciting new Chanukah programming as part of its 107th season, with an online celebration of Jewish food through song and cooking...

NYTF celebrates ‘A Yiddish Renaissance’ and Zalmen Mlotek’s 70th birthday

On Monday, July 26, beginning at 2 pm, more than 140 actors, singers, and musicians from across globe will come together remotely with the award-winning National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene (NYTF) for...

See Jackie Hoffman live in ‘Fruma-Sarah’ at the cell

Stage and screen star Jackie Hoffman – known for her Emmy-nominated role of ‘Mamacita’ from FX’s Feud: Bette and Joan, her critically acclaimed Off-Broadway appearance in the Yiddish production of...

A behind-the-scenes look at ‘Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish’ by its youngest star

As part of its popular Folksbiene! LIVE virtual programming series (which has been viewed by more than 220,000 households to date), the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene (NYTF) will present an...

NYTF and Congress for Jewish Culture commemorate the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Monday, April 19, 2021, marks the 78th anniversary of the beginning of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943, a heroic act of Jewish resistance in Nazi-occupied Poland (and the single largest revolt by...

A global community celebrates Passover with ‘The Third Seder’ concert on Sunday

In the 1960s, young survivors of the Holocaust, striving to express their communal resilience and that of their mother-tongue, began the tradition of The Third Seder, with a unique stage performance...

Observing Purim with NYTF and the Congress for Jewish Culture

In celebration of Purim next week – the spring festival held to commemorate the defeat of Haman’s plot to massacre the Jews, as recorded in the Book of Esther (also known in Hebrew as the Megillah, or...

Stars of the stage and screen observe International Holocaust Remembrance Day with the Museum of Jewish Heritage

It must never be forgotten that more than one million Jewish children were killed during the Holocaust and countless others survived the horror. Some, like the well-known and widely read Anne Frank,...

NYTF’s ‘Soul to Soul’ concert explores parallels in African-American and Jewish history

In commemoration of Martin Luther King Day on Monday, January 18, the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene (NYTF) premieres its tenth annual, and first virtual, production of Soul to Soul – an...

National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene celebrates Chanukah with a global star-studded event

To usher in this year’s Festival of Lights, National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene presents its Folksbiene Chanukah Spectacular – a virtual evening of music, comedy, celebration, and community, with more...

National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene presents a virtual celebration of Sukkos

Launched in March, following the closure of arts venues necessitated by the coronavirus pandemic, Folksbiene! LIVE offers an online celebration of Yiddish culture, featuring livestreamed presentations...

A Few Questions for Joel Grey on Directing ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ at the Museum of Jewish Heritage

A Broadway legend and award-winning actor who received both a Tony (1967) and an Oscar (1972) for his role as the Emcee in Cabaret, Joel Grey is again garnering critical and popular acclaim with the...

Review: ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ at the Museum of Jewish Heritage

One of the most beloved musicals in Broadway history, Fiddler on the Roof has made a smashing comeback in New York with the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene’s Off-Off-Broadway production at the...