The Jewish Theatre Creating Contemporary Theatre for Over 30 Years

by Woody Allen

Directed by Nancy Carlin

at Traveling Jewish Theatre
April 16–May 24, 2009

Thursday: Pay-What-You-Can, 8pm
Friday: $20 Dollar Fridays, 8pm
Saturday: $34 general, $30 Student/Senior, 8pm
Sunday: $34 general, $30 Student/Senior, 2pm

NEW! Sunday Evening performances @ 7pm

The Chronicle says, “…fantastic cast…fresh and snappy and, ultimately, quite moving.”

The SF Examiner says, “…this play is truly magical”

Woody Allen’s exploration of love and loneliness in a working-class Jewish family is set in 1945 in the Canarsie neighborhood of Brooklyn. A teenage boy with a passion for magic tricks provides the light for his mother’s otherwise frustrated life. Her husband is a petty gambler and philanderer and the coming visit of a talent scout to see her son perform provides a promise for
a better future.

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by Donald Margulies

Directed by Amy Glazer

at Traveling Jewish Theatre
February 26–April 5, 2009

Thursday-Saturday @ 8pm
Sunday @ 2pm
Wednesday Matinee
March 25 @ 2pm

“…full of dark wit and gentle lyricism”
—The New York Times

“…among the most complex and daring Holocaust plays ever written.”
—The Village Voice

“Yes, this is a comedy. Margulies’ unusual mixture of outlandish invention, outrageous humor and deeply disturbing subject matter…”-Robert Hurwitt San Francisco Chronicle

“A bravura performance by Amy Resnick is as hilarious as it is horrific.”-Robert Hurwitt San Francisco Chronicle

In this masterful, yet rarely produced, dark comedy by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Donald Margulies we find a husband and wife in flight from much more than their memories of surviving the Holocaust. Their promise-land in the New World, a Florida condo, is anything but the refuge this aging couple so desperately seeks. Starring TJT co-founder Naomi Newman, Amy Resnick, Jarion Monroe and Anthony Williams.

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by Bernard Malamud

Directed by Joel Mullennix and Sheila Balter

at JCCSF
Feb. 14–15, 2009

“Jewish company’s staging of work near perfection.”
—San Jose Mercury News

The words of Bernard Malamud explode into vivid theatrical life when TJT brings his two most celebrated stories to the stage in the style of the Word for Word Performing Arts Company. The Magic Barrel centers on a hapless rabbinical student’s encounter with a mysterious, herring-eating match-maker. The Jewbird† is Malamud’s darkly hilarious fable of assimilation and identity.

Featuring Corey Fischer* and others.

†The Jewbird was originally conceived in collaboration with the Word for Word Performing Arts Company, a program of The Z Space Studio.

This production is presented by the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco in celebration of TJT’s 30th Anniversary.

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Created and performed by Wakka Wakka Productions

Presented in collaboration with The Hub of JCCSF at TJT

Due to public demand and critical acclaim, Fabrik: The Legend of M. Rabinowitz has been extended:

Jan 29- 8 pm
Jan 39- 8 pm
Jan 31- 8 pm AND 10 pm
Feb 1- 2 pm

Inspired by Nordic and Yiddish folktales, Fabrik: The Legend of M. Rabinowitz pushes the boundaries of theatrical expression to explore one man’s search for home – and the ways in which individual choices leave an indelible impression on history. Fabrik uses hand-and-rod puppets, masks and original music created and performed by New York City’s Wakka Wakka Productions to tell the story of Moritz Rabinowitz, a Polish Jew who immigrated to Norway at the turn of the century in order to escape pogroms and persecution. Prior to World War II, Rabinowitz became a highly successful suit manufacturer. Chipper, fastidious and ever reciting his rules for the successful businessman, Moritz sensed the virulent anti-Semitism spreading and wrote opinion pieces in local and national journals warning of its advance. As an outspoken major employer, he was singled out for his views and eventually sent to Sachsenhausen concentration camp.

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by Corey Fischer, Albert Greenberg and Naomi Newman

Directed by Naomi Newman
Featuring Aaron Davidman* and Corey Fischer*

at Traveling Jewish Theatre
Nov. 6–Dec. 7, 2008

“Superb artists both, Fischer and Davidman manage to pull off broad physical comedy, Marx Brothers–like repartee and even reading Yiddish poetry aloud with all the musicality it demands.”- Dan Pine, J.

TJT begins its 30th Anniversary Season with a revival of this award-winning play. Hosted by a pair of irreverent, lost Jewish comedians, the story follows a mythical “Last” Yiddish poet on a journey through his own past. In it, audiences will recognize all the elements that have made TJT synonymous with adventurous and powerful theatre: vivid characters leapfrogging through a landscape full of humor and deep emotion; music, giant puppets and dynamic physicality.

Musical Direction by local Balkan and Klezmer favorite Dan Cantrell

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* member Actor’s Equity

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THE LAST YIDDISH POET by Corey Fischer, Albert Greenberg and Naomi Newman. Directed by Naomi Newman. November 6 - December 14, 2008

2 X MALAMUD: The Jewbird and The Magic Barrel by Bernard Malamud. Directed by Joel Mullennix and Sheila Balter. February 12 - 15, 2009

THE MODEL APARTMENT by Donald Margulies. Directed by Amy Glazer. February 26 - April 5, 2009

THE FLOATING LIGHT BULB by Woody Allen. Directed by Nancy Carlin. April 16 - May 24, 2009.

THE HUB AT TJT: FABRIK and STATELESS

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