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2022-2023 Season
I'M NOT A COMEDIAN ... I'M LENNY BRUCE

I'm Not A Comedian...I'm Lenny Bruce, written by and Starring Ronnie Marmo and directed by Joe Mantegna, chronicles the life and death of the most controversial and undisputed comedic legend of all time ... Lenny Bruce. Ronnie Marmo's exploration of the brilliant life and legacy of Lenny Bruce paints an intimate portrait of the ground-breaking comic whose outspoken views about sex, religion and power structures made him a target for censors. His passion for free speech led to a number of obscenity charges and arrests, all the way to the Supreme Court. His freestyle comedy and irreverent social commentary left a lasting impact that paved the way for many comedians who followed.

BROADWAY BOUND

Its 1949 in Brighton Beach Brooklyn and the final chapter of Neil Simon’s trilogy, including Brighton Beach Memoirs and Biloxi Blues, and in postwar America people are starting to pursue their dreams. Eugene and his older brother Stanley want to become comedy writers and they think that now is the time.

The message in Broadway Bound is timeless – family dynamics, changing values, and how nothing stays the same. This story is about a family growing up, growing apart and moving on.

2019 Season
WIESENTHAL (NAZI HUNTER)

Simon Wiesenthal devoted six decades of his life to hunting Nazis, bringing 1,100 war criminals to justice including Adolf Eichmann. Intelligent, funny, flawed and noble, Wiesenthal was an ordinary man who became a universal hero.

 

2018 Season
THE STORY OF ETHEL AND JULIUS ROSENBERG

Their execution marked the dramatic finale of the most controversial espionage case of the Cold War. Was being Jewish in the McCarthy era the tipping point to their arrest and immediate and complicit guilty verdict?  A lesson in how xenophobia is dangerous at any time in history.

LOST IN YONKERS

Set in 1942, a funny and poignant coming of age story that focuses on Jay and Arty Kurnitz, who are sent to live with their domineering German-Jewish grandmother while their father travels south to look for work.  Neil Simon’s Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning play follows the family as it struggles with the moral and social issues of the time. Over the course of the play the young boys learn about love, responsibility and important of family that will carry them into adulthood.

2017 Season
BROKEN GLASS

One of Arthur Miller’s last plays, written in 1994  exposes a marriage, social consciousness, personal responsibility and Jewish identity. In 1938, the reverberations of Kristallnact are felt by Sylvia & Philip Gellburg, after the events are publicized in the newspapers.  An autobiographical reference  by Miller, taking a look at his own Jewish identity?

JEWISH RADIO HOUR-The Musical

A collage of all the Jewish Radio Hours broadcast throughout the Golden Horseshoe between 1938 – the late 50’s. An hour of news, views and top notch Yiddish entertainment, where listeners could connect with each other and the broader Jewish world.  The Jewish Radio Hour is a piece of Canadian Jewish history that we can all share proudly.

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