Temple Beth Sholom

Longest-running Yiddish theatre In America brings its popular musical revue to Dayton for one performance only

The Traveling Troupe of the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, the longest-running Yiddish theatre in America, will bring its popular “Mama’s Loshn Kugel” revue to Dayton for one performance only on Sunday, March 21, 2010 at 2 p.m. at the Engineers Club of Dayton. The performance is sponsored by the Yiddish Club of the Dayton Jewish Community Center, with generous support from the Dayton Jewish community.

The revue, performed in Yiddish with English and Russian supertitles, includes classic songs and sketches from such luminaries in the Yiddish Theatre as Sholom Aleichem, Abraham Goldfaden, Molly Picon and others. The troupe is made up of dedicated young actors, singers and musicians who are all in their 20s and 30s.  

For more information or tickets, which are $10/adult or $8/student and include a reception after the show, contact Karen Steiger at 937-853-0372.  

The National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, which the New York Post calls “one of the city’s most remarkable cultural institutions,” is America’s sole surviving professional Yiddish theatre and the longest continuously producing Yiddish theatre company in the world. First established in1915, the Folksbiene Theatre preserves, promotes and develops Yiddish theatre for present and future generations. It is one of just four professional Yiddish theatre companies in operation today; the others are in Montreal, Warsaw and Tel Aviv.