Coming up at New Worlds:
Welcome to America
(originally titled Rags)
by H. Leivick
translated and adapted by Ellen Perecman
directed by Stephen Fried
at the 45th Street Theatre (354 West 45th Street, 2nd Floor)
May 3 - 20, 2012
MENTSHN (2009) - photo by Louis Zwiebel
Mordechai Maze's entire world has always been his family. His very identity has been bound up with his role as head of household, father, breadwinner and counselor. After immigrating to New York City, he finds his world and his identity collapsing.When he realizes that his children are now strangers to him and that his wife has no inkling of the devastation he experiences, his feeling of isolation causes him to lose his bearings and perhaps his mind.
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New Worlds reading of Dovid Pinski's Professor Brenner, October 27, 2011
On October 27, 2011, New Worlds Theatre Project read Dovid Pinski's 1911 play, PROFESSOR BRENNER, for an audience at the Brotherhood Synagogue in New York City. Actors Brian Cade, Gian-Murray Gianino, Jorge Humberto Hoyos, Peter Francis James, Deanne Lorette, Melissa Miller, Philip Mutz, Sarah Schenkkan, Elaine Stritch, Derek Wilson, director Stephen Fried, and translator/adaptor Ellen Perecman brought Pinski's story of a neurotic art professor madly in love with a woman less than half his age to life. Also in attendance was the playwright's own grandson, Gabriel Pinski, who joined the company for a talk-back following the reading.
New Worlds' residency at the Yiddish Book Center, August 11 - 14, 2011
From August 11 - 14, New Worlds Theatre Project was in residency at the Yiddish Book Center on the beautiful grounds of Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. Actors Anna Kull, Allan Leicht, Yelena Shmulenson, and Derek Wilson, along with director Stephen Fried and translator/adaptor and New Worlds Producing Artistic Director Ellen Perecman spent four days working on Sholem Asch's WITH THE CURRENT [1907]. We held an open rehearsal, reading, and talk-back, and thrilled our wonderful audience with Asch's potently moving play.
Praise for UNDER THE CROSS
June 3 - 25, 2011 at the Abingdon Theatre Arts Complex
UNDER THE CROSS (2011) - photo by Louis Zwiebel
"The mission of the six-year-old New Worlds Theatre Project is to celebrate the literary legacy of Yiddish culture by bringing to the stage English adaptations of Yiddish plays. It has found a worthy example in "Under the Cross," a drama from the early 1920s by I.D. Berkovitch." Backstage.com
"New Worlds' Founding and Producing Artistic Director, Ellen Perecman created an excellent translation of the work… New Worlds mentions in the program a goal to get Berkovitch in the same conversation with such theatre luminaries as Chekhov and Ibsen. If Perecman's translations are consistently used, I can easily see that goal being achieved. I also really enjoyed the choices of the set, costume, sound and lighting designers. The Under the Cross technical team did a fine job creating a world where nothing is as it seems. Their world did an elegant job heightening the struggles of Moise trying to be something he wasn't…each member of the cast turned in a superb job…if you have ever been interested in Yiddish Theatre, Under The Cross is worth it to check out." Broadwayworld.com
"New Worlds' Founding and Producing Artistic Director, Ellen Perecman created an excellent translation of the work… New Worlds mentions in the program a goal to get Berkovitch in the same conversation with such theatre luminaries as Chekhov and Ibsen. If Perecman's translations are consistently used, I can easily see that goal being achieved. I also really enjoyed the choices of the set, costume, sound and lighting designers. The Under the Cross technical team did a fine job creating a world where nothing is as it seems. Their world did an elegant job heightening the struggles of Moise trying to be something he wasn't…each member of the cast turned in a superb job…if you have ever been interested in Yiddish Theatre, Under The Cross is worth it to check out." Broadwayworld.com
