New Jewish Theatre
An Award-Winning Program of the J!
Year after year, the New Jewish Theatre continues its tradition of presenting professional theatre at the highest level of artistic excellence, producing shows that examine universal themes and issues, filtered through the lens of the Jewish experience.
Each production provides entertaining and often provocative subject matter featuring theatre professionals from the St. Louis area and elsewhere.
Tickets start at just $26 for an individual ticket, or just $17.50 per show for season tickets. Group rates are available for 10 or more.
Performance times are Wednesdays and Thursdays at 7:30 pm; Saturdays at 8:00 pm; Sundays at 2:00 pm (plus a 7:30 pm show on the second Sunday of each production).
Contact: NJT Hotline, 314-442-3283
Visit NJT: New Jewish Theatre Online
2010-11 Season Productions:
MY NAME IS ASHER LEV by Aaron Posner, adapted from the Chaim Potok novel
October 6 - 24
This inspiring drama is a passionate coming-of-age story about a young man’s struggle between his religious upbringing and drive to become an artist. His artistic genius threatens his relationship with his parents and community and weighs heavily on his conscience as he struggles to reconcile his two worlds.
THE LAST OF THE RED HOT MAMAS; a "revuesical" by Tony Parise & Karen Baker
December 1 - 26 (includes an additional week!)
The legendary Sophie Tucker, the Queen of Vaudeville, burlesque theatre and the jazz age, had a career which spanned a sensational 60 years. Born Sonia Kalish to a Jewish family in Tsarist Russia that immigrated to the US, Tucker’s bawdy sense of humor and outspoken views influenced comediennes and singers for generations.
SIRENS by Deborah Zoe Laufer
February 16 - March 6
Laufer’s hit play is an empty-nest story about a husband and wife and the hit love song he wrote for her which became an instant hit. They married and lived off the song’s proceeds for the next 25 years. Creative stagnation and memories of passionate youth drove the husband to Facebook to seek a new muse and reawaken his passions of 25 years ago.
AWAKE AND SING! by Clifford Odets, directed by Steve Woolf, Repatory Theatre
April 20 - May 8
War looms, anti-Semitism is on the rise, capitalism is corrupt, the American economy is shaken, immigrants are uneasy and the family unit is in upheaval – all issues as relevant today as when it premiered in 1935. Odets masterpiece is gritty, passionate, funny and heartbreaking and set in a Bronx tenement during the Great Depression.
THE IMMIGRANT by Mark Harelik
June 1 -19
Inspired by the playwright’s family history – and his grandmother’s photo album – this is the (mostly true) story of two Eastern European Jews who immigrated to a small Texas town in 1909. This is just one story among thousands of Jewish immigrants who ended up in the American Southwest through the Galveston Project.
Kevin Kline Awards for NJT!
The New Jewish Theatre has captured 27 Kevin Kline nominations and six Awards since the awards began five years ago.
The awards received are:
2005 Awards
2006 Awards
2007 Awards
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