Primrose Road

This came up on the Yugntruf email list the other day:

"The Essence" was created and is performed by Allen Lewis Rickman, Yelena Shmulenson, and Steve Sterner, three of the younger veterans of Yiddish theater. "We tell the entire history of the Yiddish theater, kinda-sorta, in eighty minutes," said Rickman. "We tell stories in English and act and sing in Yiddish -- with supertitles -- and the audience laughs and cries and whatevers. And it's 99 44/100% nostalgia-free."

"It's not just for alter kakers," explained Shmulenson.

I'd love to see this -- anything about the Yiddish theater that has the (chutzpah?) to advertise itself as being "99.44% nostalgia-free" has got to be good -- but because I teach on Long Island until 5pm on Mondays, there's no way I'd be able to make it to Manhattan by 7. In any case, the performance will take place at 325 E 6th Street, tvishn 1st and 2nd Avenues, on Monday, Feb 4th. So go do something Yiddish-y next week.