Chaim's Love Song
By Marvin Chernoff
Regional Premiere Production

Kelly Burke is a newly married 30-year old school teacher from Iowa, miserably biding her time in Brooklyn as her husband conducts research. When 74-year old Chaim Shotsky approaches this young woman who he sees day after day alone in the park near his apartment, a beautiful intergenerational and intercultural friendship unfolds. This unlikely pair forge a bond based upon differing experiences that hold universal feelings. Their stories about childhood, adolescence, parenting, and adulthood provide a view of life's aspirations, joys and sorrows in this sweet comedy that is sure to touch your heart and warm your soul.

“Rich and affecting...
A funny, philosophical, lovely evening.”
- N.Y. Times

Hershel and the
Hanukkah Goblins
By Shari Aronson
Adapted from the book by Eric A. Kimmel
Regional Premiere Production

Hershel of Ostropol has been walking long and hard with growing anticipation for the Hanukkah holiday. Tired and hungry, he imagines the smell of latkes and the bright lights of the menorah. But when Hershel arrives in Helmsbergville, the village is silent. Goblins have been preventing Hanukkah in Helmsbergville for years. Can this visitor help bring Hanukkah back? Enlisted by the townspeople, Hershel agrees to spend eight nights in the old synagogue to try to defeat the goblins. This delightful, interactive play with puppetry brings to life the enchanting storybook Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins!

Chutzpah à go-go
By David Gale and Randy Vancourt
U.S. Premiere Production

Join the Bubkes Jewish Community Players for a newish Jewish musical celebrating the centennial of Bubkes, North Dakota. You'll discover the roots of the early Jewish settlers of the upper midwest in a town full of mavens of political and social causes, inventors, and entrepreneurs, and delight in the creativity of individuals who adapted into American life without losing their Jewish identity. This rollicking tribute to early Jewish settlers paints a unique portrait of a people's journey from the shtetl to the prairie. You won’t want to miss this joyful hit that celebrates everything endearing about the Jewish culture.

“A wildly funny and wickedly irreverent
tour de force.”
- The Toronto Star

2.5 Minute Ride
By Lisa Kron
a solo performance
Regional Premiere Production

This funny and touching journey through a family album tells a beautiful story of a father-daughter relationship. Take trips with Lisa and her father to Germany as they revisit his youth and the sorrow of a teenager who escaped the Nazis by kindertransport, ride roller-coasters with them at Cedar Point amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio, and experience the wedding of Lisa's brother and his internet bride in Canarsie, Brooklyn. Along the way, you'll meet Lisa's mother, partner, and a cadre of other relatives in a rich look at the eccentricities of family and how life's experiences and events shape who we become.

“Bespeaks the remarkable resiliency of the human spirit.”
- Los Angeles Times