The New Jewish Theatre’s 2015-2016 season continues with a production of “Old Wicked Songs” by Jon Marans. The play is set in Vienna, Austria in 1986, where Kurt Waldheim is running for re-election despite his Nazi past. Stephen Hoffman, a young...
Prior to the opening of the first production of its 16th season, the New Jewish Theatre will present “Cabaret NJT”, an evening of music and song, at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 9. Some of the best cabaret talent St. Louis has to offer (all alumni from...
BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published February 1, 2012
Maybe something got lost in translation, but the New Jewish Theatre's production of "Way to Heaven" gets bogged down in its effort to give a fictionalized account of the International Red Cross's whitewashed inspection of a notorious Nazi concentration...
Next up at the New Jewish Theatre starting in late January will be "Way to Heaven," which tells of an elaborate hoax by the Nazis to beautify the ghetto/concentration camp of Theresienstadt before the International Red Cross came to inspect it in June...
After six months of R&R, PT, OT, ST and general misery from a fall June 13, which caused brain injury, I am finally back in the saddle. Well, not totally but with the help of a wheelchair, a walker and some wonderful assistance from aids, friends...
BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published December 7, 2011
Fans of Alfred Uhry's award-winning play and film "Driving Miss Daisy" are sure to love "The Last Night of Ballyhoo," appearing through Dec. 18 at The New Jewish Theatre. Though not as much of a household name as Neil Simon or Arthur Miller, Uhry is...
By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published June 1, 2011
Kathleen Sitzer was braced for the impact but it never came. "Surprisingly, it was extremely positive," she said. "I was all prepared for a lot of flak about it. I didn't get it and I was delighted." It was 2005 and Sitzer, artistic director of the New...
BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-In-Chief Emeritus
• Published April 27, 2011
Clifford Odets, one of the leading playwrights of left-wing social protest and a master craftsman of Depression-era Jewish family dynamics, would no doubt be proud of the soaring New Jewish Theatre production of one of his best plays, "Awake and Sing,"...
BY PATRICIA CORRIGAN, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published April 21, 2011
In the Great Depression, Clifford Odets wrote "Awake and Sing!," a play about a family's responses to challenges that sound eerily familiar. Kathleen Sitzer, artistic director of the New Jewish Theatre, ticks off those challenges: A broken economy, war...
