National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene

The Award-winning National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene [NYTF] is the longest continuously producing Yiddish theatre company in the world. The company presents plays, musicals, concerts, lectures, interactive educational workshops and community-building activities in English and Yiddish, with English and Russian super titles accompanying performances. NYTF serves a versatile audience of over 50,000 individuals annually, comprised of performing arts patrons, cultural enthusiasts, Yiddish-language aficionados and the general public, while also using the arts as a vehicle to educate youth and adults about Jewish heritage. The NYTF outreach program takes events around the region, nation and world, bringing programming annually to over 15,000 individuals.

Productions (9)

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NYC: Financial

A Yiddish musical about the Holocaust, and the resilience and hope of those who lived through it.

92
Must See!
1K+ Reviews
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NYC: Midtown W

The classic musical is presented in a new way – in Yiddish with English and Russian supertitles.

91
Must See!
1K+ Reviews
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NYC: Financial

A biographical musical about The Comedian Harmonists presented by Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman. 

Unreviewed
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NYC: Virtual

The play chronicles the tragic true story of Jewish resistance fighter Itsik Vitenberg.

83
Great
57 Reviews
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NYC: Financial

NYTF presents one of the earliest works of modern Yiddish theater, an 1878 musical fantasy starring an…

81
Great
72 Reviews
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NYC: Financial

This one-woman play with music tells the true story of Hannah Senesh, the heroic young Jewish woman who…

81
Great
98 Reviews
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NYC: Financial

National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene presents Zalmen Mlotek and Moishe Rosenfeld’s musical, which chronicles…

60
Middling
24 Reviews
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NYC: Harlem

Lost & Found Project presents a new multidisciplinary theater piece exploring a mosaic of interrelated…

85
Excellent
102 Reviews
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NYC: Financial

National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene presents one of the most popular operettas of the Roaring Twenties about a…

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