Presents from Romania

Performance Admission: $15 YIVO members: $10

Where was Yiddish theater born? And where was its bar mitsvah?

Witness the birth of Yiddish theater in a Romanian garden, and watch it grow like mushrooms after a rain in the theaters of the Lower East Side. It's a story about the world's longest tennis match and the Atlantic Ocean is the net. Yiddish plays and actors volley back and forth for generations, from Jassy to the Lower East Side, from the Bronx to Bucharest, from Braila to Brooklyn.

With backstories in English and performances in Yiddish-with-supertitles, Presents from Romania is an evening of songs, scenes, stories, and "snippets" that will make you laugh and cry...and you'll learn something, too.

This performance is by and with Allen Lewis Rickman, Miriam-Khaye Siegel, Shane Baker, and Yelena Shmulenson. This performance was developed by the Congress for Jewish Culture, with The Romanian Cultural Institute of New York, in honor of Mr. Moshe Yassur.