On Stage

 

VOICES FROM A CHANGING MIDDLE EAST: 2008-2009 FESTIVAL 

Last year's rousing festival success returns with returns with a new installment focusing on vibrant Israeli voices in the 60th year of Israels' existence.  This second installment will feature one mainstage production and very special limited engagements and more!  Performances, panels, and Peace Cafes at Theater J, co-sponsored by the Embassy of Israel.  

 

 

 

 

 DAI (Enough)

Written and performed by
Iris Bahr Originally directed Off-Broadway
by Will Pomerantz

January 14-18, 2009

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 THE ACCIDENT

By Hillel Mitelpunkt
Directed by Sinai Peter
English Language Premiere, translated by David Berkoff

February 4–March 8, 2009

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 BENEDICTUS 

By Motti Lerner
Directed by Rahaleh Nassri

An Iran-Israel-US Collaboration
Created by Mahmood Karimi-Hakak, Motti Lerner, Roberta Levitow, Daniel Michaelson and Torange Yeghiazarian

March 14-29, 2009

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ONE NIGHT ONLY

SPECIAL EVENT

 


Waziristan to Washington: A Muslim at the Crossroads


Written & Performed by Akbar Ahmed
Directed by Stephen Stern

March 23 at 7:30 pm

In the post 9/11 world, one of the world’s leading authorities on Islam is
forced to explain his culture and his people's history to a hostile Western
World. Akbar Ahmed-—anthropologist, former Pakistani High Commissioner and Oprah Winfrey's go-to guest on Muslim issues takes us back to his birthplace and traces the evolution of modern Pakistan, the attempts to achieve integration in the modern world, and the rise of Islamic extremism in the face of Western ignorance.  A moving, multi-media memoir presented in partnership with the 16th Street J’s Dialogues and Public Affairs Program.

 

 

 SEVEN JEWISH CHILDREN
By Caryl Churchill

 - Followed by -

SEVEN PALESTINIAN CHILDREN
By Deb Margolin

THE EIGHTH CHILD
By Robbie Gringras

 

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