This list is composed (in no particular order) of both classics of American Jewish Theater as well as more contemporary plays that break new ground
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Welcome Stranger - Aaron Hoffman
The Cold Wind and the Warm - S.N. Behrman
Street Scene - Elmer Rice
Counsellor-at-Law - Elmer Rice
Awake and Sing! - Clifford Odets
Waiting for Lefty - Clifford Odets
Paradise Lost - Clifford Odets
Watch on the Rhine - Lillian Hellman
The Melting Pot - Israel Zangwill (original, or edited adaptation by Ari Roth)
Abie's Irish Rose - Anne Nichols
The Jewish Sappho - adapted by Jacob Gordon
The Jazz Singer - Samson Raphaelson
Jolson! - Stephen Mo Hannen
Morning Star - Sylvia Regan
The Cradle Will Rock - Mark Blitzstein
Home of the Brave - Arthur Laurents
Jolson Sings Again - Arthur Laurents
Success Story - John Howard Lawson
All My Sons - Arthur Miller
After The Fall - Arthur Miller
The Creation of the World and Other Business - Arthur Miller
Broken Glass - Arthur Miller
Brighton Beach Memoirs - Neil Simon
Biloxy Blues - Neil Simon
Broadway Bound - Neil Simon
Jake the Mechanic - Caraid O'Brien
God of Vengeance - Scholem Asch (adapter either by Donald Margulies or Caraid O'Brien
The Chosen - Chaim Potok (adapted by Aaron Posner and Chaim Potok)
Knock Knock - Jules Feiffer
A Bad Friend - Jules Feiffer
Angels in America (Millennium Approaches) - Tony Kushner
The Dubbuk - S. Ansky (Adapted by Tony Kushner and Joachim Neugriscgel)
March of the Falsettos and Falsettoland - William Finn & James Lapine
Conversations With My Father - Herb Gardner
I'm Not Rappaport - Herb Gardner
The Value of Names - Jeffrey Sweet
The Action Against Sol Schumann - Jeffrey Sweet
The Loman Family Picnic - Donald Margulies
The Model Apartment - Donald Margulies
Sight Unseen - Donald Margulies
Collected Stories - Donald Margulies
The Substance of Fire - Jon Robin Baitz
Goldberg Street - David Mamet
The Old Neighborhood (esp. The Disappearance of the Jews) - David Mamet
Speed The Plow - David Mamet
The Last Night of Ballyhoo - Alfred Uhry
Driving Miss Daisy - Alfred Uhry
The Immigrant - Mark Harelik
The Normal Heart & The Destiny Of Me - Larry Kramer
Another Antigone - A. R. Gurney
Fires In The Mirror: Crown Heights, Brooklyn and Other Identities - Anna Deavere Smith
Visiting Mr. Greene - Jeff Baron
The Day The Bronx Died - Michael Henry Brown
The Sign In Sidney Brustein's Window - Lorraine Hansberry
Talley's Folly - Lanford Wilson
The Waverly Gallery - Kenneth Lonergan
Tieble and Her Demons - based on Isaac Bashevis Singer
Yentl - Leah Napolin, based on Isaac Bashevis Singer
We Shall Never Die & A Flag is Born (Pageants) - Ben Hecht
The American Play - Richard Greenberg
Everett Beekin - Richard Greenberg
The Last Seder - Jennifer Maisel
The Gathering - Arje Shaw
Life in Refusal - Ari Roth
The Sisters Rosensweig - Wendy Wasserstein
Isn't It Romantic - Wendy Wasserstein
A Shayna Maidel - Barbara Lebow
Rose - Martin Sherman
Hospitality - Allan Havis
The Mad Dancers - Yehuda Hyman
Red Diaper Baby - Josh Kornbluth
Shakespeare, Moses and Joe Papp - Ernie Joselovitz
Today I am a Fountain Pen Trilogy - adapted by Israel Horowitz
Inventions for Fathers and Sons - Alan Brody
Uncle Philip's Coat - Matty Selman and Larry Block
Family Secrets - Sherry Glasser
Green Violin - Elise Thornton
Crossing Delancey Street - Susan Sandler
The People vs. the God of Vengeance - Rebecca Taichman
The Rise of David Levinsky - Isaiah Sheffer
A Body of Water - Jenna Zark
Beau Jest - James Sherman
A Stoop on Orchard Street - Jay Kholos
Contact :
The National Foundation for Jewish Culture
Tel :(212) 629-0500, Fax: (212) 629-0508;
E-mail: nfjc@jewishculture.org.
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