National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene
The Award-winning National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene [NYTF] is the longest continuously producing Yiddish theatre company in the world. The company presents plays, musicals, concerts, lectures, interactive educational workshops and community-building activities in English and Yiddish, with English and Russian super titles accompanying performances. NYTF serves a versatile audience of over 50,000 individuals annually, comprised of performing arts patrons, cultural enthusiasts, Yiddish-language aficionados and the general public, while also using the arts as a vehicle to educate youth and adults about Jewish heritage. The NYTF outreach program takes events around the region, nation and world, bringing programming annually to over 15,000 individuals.
Productions (9)
A Yiddish musical about the Holocaust, and the resilience and hope of those who lived through it.
The classic musical is presented in a new way – in Yiddish with English and Russian supertitles.
A biographical musical about The Comedian Harmonists presented by Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman.
The play chronicles the tragic true story of Jewish resistance fighter Itsik Vitenberg.
NYTF presents one of the earliest works of modern Yiddish theater, an 1878 musical fantasy starring an…
This one-woman play with music tells the true story of Hannah Senesh, the heroic young Jewish woman who…
National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene presents Zalmen Mlotek and Moishe Rosenfeld’s musical, which chronicles…
Lost & Found Project presents a new multidisciplinary theater piece exploring a mosaic of interrelated…
National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene presents one of the most popular operettas of the Roaring Twenties about a…
