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YIDDISH THEATRE IN YOUR COMMUNITY
Troupe List - Upcoming Performances - Show Calendar - CUNY Events
The Folksbiene Outreach Program Can Bring A Taste Of The Yiddish Stage To Your Shul Or Community Center
Great for fundraisers, festivals, holidays, school or cultural events.
The Folksbiene Outreach program is dedicated to bringing Yiddish Theatre to audiences who are unable visit us, especially to communities of Holocaust survivors. We are also striving to bring performances to new audiences who may not have experienced how fresh and enjoyable Yiddish culture can be.
This program is generously supported by The Claims Conference and The David Berg Foundation. If you would like to bring a Yiddish performance to your shul or community center, please contact Motl Didner at outreach@folksbiene.org or call 212-213-2120
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Our Current Touring Production is
The Folksbiene Troupe
In
Makht A Tsimes!
A Traveling Yiddish Revue
featuring classic songs and sketches from the Yiddish Theatre
with
Alec "Leizer" Burko
Matthew "Motl" Didner
Danielle "Elize-Rokhl" Dorter
Richard "Ruvn" Kass
Daniella Rabbani
and
Amanda "Miryem-Khaye" Seigel
Directed by
Motl Didner
In Yiddish with English translation Supertitles
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Leizer Burko shows off his juggling skills.
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The Folksbiene Troupe (or Di Trupe) is a group of young people who have come to the Yiddish world in their twenties and thirties and are passionate about finding their artistic expression through performance in the Yiddish language. They have all learned Yiddish, as adults, through YIVO's Uriel Weinreich Summer Program, The Workmen's Circle and The Jewish Theological Seminary. The Troupe performs in Yiddish, rehearses in Yiddish and even socializes in Yiddish.
Di Trupe was formed as part of The Folksbiene Outreach Program in the autumn of 2004. By January 2005 they were presenting their first musical revue Mama's Loshn Kugel. To date, Di Trupe has performed for audiences in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx, Long Island, Westchester County, Upstate New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Washington D.C. for audiences of Yiddish speakers and non-Yiddish speakers alike, Holocaust survivors and their families, recent immigrants from the former Soviet Republics, students and Yiddish enthusiasts. Di Trupe looks forward to performing in every city where a Yiddish word can be appreciated.
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(left to right) Miryem-Khaye Seigel, Miriam Lipner,Leizer Burko, Elize-Rokhl Dorter
and Motl Didner in "Makht a Tsimes"
Elize-Rokhl Dorter impresses Motl Didner
with her rendition of "Sheyn Vi Di Levone"
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Di Folksbiene Trupe
Leizer Burko and Ruvn Kass
in "Getsl at The Painters"
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