It’s a new year! Just a few years ago, it was new years eve, I wanted to hold on to the year that just passed. I remember 2018, going into 2019, I was shocked that I didn’t want the year to be over. I felt as if time was running away from me and I had so...
I don’t want my grandfather to die. I’m just not ready. I know, when is anyone ever ready to let go forever? But not now, it’s the worst time. I haven’t gotten time to change him: my grandfather. To make him happy with me. I’m just in the midst of destroying every...
Eishes Chayil, a woman of strength, of value. The song on repeat repeat repeat as this skirt is being cut, pocked, crotch created. These lines of poetry viscerally cut me and I feel alive. The memory of this same tune in many homes and countries but always my voice in...
Who am I A view into my blurry reflection/ ( ווער בין איך? אן אנטפלעקונג פון א פארצייטישע שפיגל) פון וואנעט קום איך און פון וואנעט אויפגעשפראצט? פון וואו ציען זיך מיינע ווארצלען און וואוהין האב איך זיי איבערגעלאזט? איך קום פון א שאכטל אינגאנצן פארמאכט, איך בין ווי אן...
Amy Coleman brings Aunt Rose to life. NY Times Grace Paley Grace Paley is an American icon. To read Ms. Paley’s fiction is to be awash in the shouts and murmurs of secular Yiddishkeit, with its wild onrushing joy and twilight melancholy. For her, cadence and...
Goodbye and Good Luck An excerpt from Grace Paley’s short story of that name. Adapted by Amy Coleman, directed by Esther Hafner. This one is a charmer, in Paley’s most Yiddishlekh...
Next Stop In Lockdown with Esther and Henry Written by Amy Coleman and directed by Gera Sandler, this 24 minutes of mayhem and madness is a perfect reflection of the times we live in. My favorite section is the bit about whom is going to take out the kitty...
Labor Of Life I’ve been nagging about Hanoch Levin for over two years, and we keep staging the two plays in our repertoire continuously. Here is our latest staging of The Labor Of Life. Oberon Press has just released a 3 volume anthology of his plays. Hopefully...
