Making an Immigration Tale Universal - How this Yiddish musical crosses cultural barriers
How this Yiddish musical crosses cultural barriers---It's unusual for a theatre company to revive a show just five years after its last mounting. However, when the directors of the century-old National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene (NYTF) sat down to plan the season, they realized almost immediately that Amerike – The Golden Land had a powerful new resonance. Originally produced in 1984 and last seen at NYTF in 20…