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Message from Alliance for Jewish Theatre member Wendy Kout - West Coast screenwriter, playwright and producer
Jewish humor. Where would we all (Jews and non-Jews) be without it? Would we even BE without it?
So, I have been tasked to help organize and be on the panel on Jewish humor at the next Alliance for Jewish Theatre Conference in Boston in October 22 - 25 2017. And I’m thinking maybe we hear a little comedy from humorist/performers, a little context from a scholar, and a little experience from our fellow, funny Alliance members.
From its spirit-saving, age-old coping mechanism to its present-day political and social commentary… from its power to provide entertainment and escape, to its capacity to challenge and confront — humor and Jews doing humor has been a vital part of the Jewish collective and its individual identity.
And it has been an important part of theatre produced across the globe. (Read More)
Wendy Kout
Twitter: @koutster
The National Jewish Theatre Foundation In Tribute to Elie Wiesel
HONORING ELIE WIESEL (z”l) ON HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY 2017
WITH PLAY READINGS
The NJTF/HTII at UM Miller Center welcomes and invites your participation in the 3rd annual Holocaust Remembrance Day Play Readings to be held on Sunday, 4/23/17 and Monday, 4/24/17, Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah). This year we honor the late Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, a great fiction and non-fiction writer and a playwright. (Read More)
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