A shayna maidel is a pretty girl in Yiddish, the colorfully archaic form of German once spoken by millions of European Jews. In the crucible of death that was Hitler’s Third Reich, countless shayna ...
A Holocaust survivor reunites with her sister in this insightful but overly careful drama. A Shayna Maidel begins with with birth of a child during a pogrom in 19th-century Poland. Someone observes ...
4 DETROIT '67 to Open Pulse Theatre Chicago's Fall Season Though the entirety of Vanessa Stalling's production is staged in Collette Pollard's charmingly designed apartment and Lebow's scenes mainly ...
“A Shayna Maidel,” translated from Yiddish to mean “A Pretty Girl,” is the story of two Polish sisters reunited after World War II. The older sister, Lusia, survived imprisonment in a Nazi ...
The revitalized theater on display over the past nine months at Laguna Playhouse brings both a welcome surprise and an unalloyed pleasure. New artistic director David Ellenstein has knit together a ...