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Yiddish Art Theatre

Yiddish Art Theatre

The Oxford Companion to American Theatre | 2004 | | Copyright

Yiddish Art Theatre (New York). Founded in 1918 by Maurice Schwartz at the Irving Place Theatre, it eventually moved to a fine, new theatre built for it on Second Avenue. Yiddish theatre historian Nahma Sandrow, noting Schwartz's insistent pragmatism, observed that the organization was “as close to traditional Yiddish theatre as to austere revolutionary art theatre principles.” One result was that even in its first season a breakaway group called the Jewish Art Theatre was formed by Jacob Ben‐Ami and others. But the splinter group was short‐lived while the original organization, by presenting a mixture of classics and trivial material, survived until 1950. Some of the productions were translated and performed on Broadway, and the company also toured on occasion.
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Yiddish Art Theatre

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Yiddish Art Theatre, New York, see GARDEN THEATRE.
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