Theater & Performing Arts
Theater in the ghetto
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR The Theresienstadt (Terezin, in Czech) ghetto was a prison for about 150,000 Jews, between 1941 and 1945,...
MJTC gives local premiere to ‘Bad Jews’
Director Hayley Finn says the play ‘demands that the audience get into the minds and hearts of the characters so...
Sabes JCC stages ‘They Called Her Captain’
Maggie Bearmon Pistner remounts her one-woman show, which tells the story of her mother’s army service during World War II...
Stellar cast brightens MJTC stage in ‘Allergist’s Wife’
Minnesota Jewish Theatre Company’s production includes Twin Cities’ favorites Sally Wingert and Linda Kelsey By DORIS RUBENSTEIN There are a...
'The Chanukah Guest' returns to MJTC
Director Candace Barrett Birk looks forward to presenting the story to a new audience By ERIN ELLIOTT BRYAN / Community...
MJTC stages Englander’s ‘The Twenty-Seventh Man’
Playwright Nathan Englander is the first to recite a theatrical kaddish for the Yiddish poets murdered by Stalin in 1952...
MJTC’s 'Becoming Dr. Ruth' runs Aug. 20-30
The Minnesota Jewish Theatre Company (MJTC) will stage the regional premiere of Becoming Dr. Ruth, a solo show featuring Miriam...
‘The Scottsboro Boys’: Singing a story of American injustice
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR John Kander traveled from his home in New York City to Minneapolis last week to help tune...
