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Murder Mysteries - A Play for Voices
-Monday November 26, 2012 - 7pm
Admission is Free!
Community Meeting Room
Weinberg Park Heights JCC
5700 Park heights Ave.
The first installment of JTW's new Monthly Play Reading Series at the JCC, Murder Mysteries is adapted from a short story by author Neil Gaiman. Set before the creation of man, it is a tale of love, consequences, and what it means to seek justice, and exact vengeance for the first time.
We hope you will join us for a casual evening of theatre as we read in a seated but lively style. Admission is free, and there is no need for a reservation.
Cast:
Narrator - Jonas Grey
Carasel - Brad Norris
Tinkerbell Richmond (Tink) - Lisa Jacobs
Dorothy - Susan Vick
Raquel - Brad Norris
Phanuel - Michael Turniansky
Angel #1 - Lisa Jacobs
Angel #2 - Susan Vick
Lucifer - Jonathan Rubin
Saraquael - Ariella McCown
Zephkiel - Jim Knost
Passenger - Jim Knost
Flight Attendant - Ariella McCown
God of Carnage
By: Yasmina Reza
Curated By: Ariella McCown
-Monday, January 21, 2013 - 7pm
Admission is Free!
Refreshments will be served!
Community Meeting Room
Weinberg Park Heights JCC
5700 Park Heights Ave.
After an altercation between their children at school, two couples come together to work things out. What ensues is a relentless comedy of manners... without the manners.
We hope you will join us for a casual evening of theatre as we read in a seated but lively style. Admission is free, and there is no need for a reservation. For more information, please visit our website.
13 Dead Husbands
By: Tom Horan
Curated By: Brad Norris
-Monday, February 18, 2013 - 7pm
Admission is Free!
Refreshments will be served!
The Morstein Performa
Rosenbloom Owings Mills JCC
3506 Gwynnbrook Avenue
Dee-Dee is the most beautiful woman in the world. She is so beautiful that fantastically wealthy and brilliant men go to mad lengths to woo her and wed her. But shortly after each wedding the husband meets with a rapid, untimely end. Is she cursed? Is all love doomed? Jean-Pierre and Marcel are determined to find out. Yet, even as they attempt to earn Dee-Dee's love, the men worry: should one of them wed her, will he live to enjoy it?
Join the JTW for a casual evening of theater as we read in a seated but lively style. Admission is free, and there is no need for a reservation.
Buy The Book
By: Tom Horan
Curated By: Isaac Kotlicky
-Monday, March 18, 2013 - 7pm
Admission is Free!
Refreshments will be served!
Community Meeting Room
Weinberg Park Heights JCC
5700 Park Heights Ave.
Jimmy is a salesman, and he's unbelievably good at what he does: he sells religion. When Eli, a devout atheist, confronts Jimmy for turning his friend into a monk, they strike a deal to change him back. All Eli has to do is learn how to be Jewish...
Join the JTW for a casual evening of theater as we read in a seated but lively style. Admission is free, and there is no need for a reservation.
Bill W. and Dr. Bob
By: Samuel Shem and Janet Surrey
Curated By: Etan Weintraub
-Monday, May 20, 2013 - 7pm
Admission is Free!
Refreshments will be served!
Community Meeting Room
Weinberg Park Heights JCC
5700 Park Heights Ave.
In 1929, the famous New York stockbroker William G. Wilson crashed with the market and became a hopeless drunk. Dr. Bob Smith was a surgeon from Ohio, who often went into the operating room with a hangover. When Bill W. and Dr. Bob met, they formed a friendship where each helped to keep the other sober. This is the story of that friendship, and how they went on to form Alcoholics Anonymous together.
Join the JTW for a casual evening of theater as we read in a seated but lively style. Admission is free, and there is no need for a reservation.
Dancing at Lughnasa
By: Brian Friel
Curated By: Brad Norris
-Monday, June 17, 2013 - 7pm
Admission is Free!
Refreshments will be served!
Straus Auditorium
Weinberg Park Heights JCC
5700 Park Heights Ave.
In the town of Ballybeg in Ireland's county Donegel it is August 1936. This is a time of change for the 5 unwed Mundy sisters, the eight year old love-child, Michael, and the Mundy brother priest, Uncle Jack. As the autumnal fires celebrating the Harvest God, Lugh, bathe the high grass in golden light, and soft music floats from the radio, the sisters, with unfailing courage and sweet forgiveness dance in a wild, final celebration of their way of life before it changes forever.
Join the JTW for a casual evening of theater as we read in a seated but lively style. Admission is free, and there is no need for a reservation.
The Day They Kidnapped The Pope
By: Joao Bethencourt
Curated By: Mike Turniansky
-Monday, July 22, 2013 - 7pm
Admission is Free!
Refreshments will be served!
Community Meeting Room
Weinberg Park Heights JCC
5700 Park Heights Ave.
At the end of his triumphal tour of New York, Pope Albert is accidentally kidnapped by Sam Leibowitz, a Brooklyn taxi driver. Sam takes The Pope to his Brooklyn Apartment where he holds him for a special ransom - a day of world peace. The Leibowitz family is stunned by this act and Sam's bewildered wife, with no other recourse, fixes a lunch, saying, "Call the children; call the Pope."
Join the JTW for a casual evening of theater as we read in a seated but lively style. Admission is free, and there is no need for a reservation.
Picasso at the Lapin Agile
By: Steve Martin
Curated By: Ariella McCown
-Monday, August 19, 2013 - 7pm
Admission is Free!
Refreshments will be served!
Community Meeting Room
Weinberg Park Heights JCC
5700 Park Heights Ave.
This absurdist comedy places Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso in a Parisian cafe in 1904, just before Einstein transformed physics with his theory of relativity and Picasso set the art world afire with cubism. These two geniuses muse on the century's achievements and prospects as well as other fanciful topics with infectious dizziness.
Join the JTW for a casual evening of theater as we read in a seated but lively style. Admission is free, and there is no need for a reservation.
The Jewish Theatre Workshop is excited to finally be announcing our four week series of free play readings for the month of October! We have partnered with the Free Fall Baltimore program to bring you a different reading every Monday throughout October! Each reading is inspired by the cold chill of a dark fall night, and is guaranteed to thrill you! Each reading takes place at the Park Heights JCC in the Community Meeting Room. Everyone is welcome, admission is free, and there is no need for a reservation.
First up is Snow Glass Apples by Neil Gaiman on Monday, October 7th at 7:00pm.
An apple laced with poison, a coffin made of glass, skin ice cold and snow white, and lips red with blood... sound like a fairy tale? Join us for this chilling re-imagining of the story of Snow White from the Step-Mother's point of view. The master of modern fantasy, Neil Gaiman, gives us this delectable play for voices.
Week two is Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe on Monday, October 14th at 7:00pm.
A Raven seated on the pallid bust of Pallas, the tell-tale beating of an unyielding heart, and the whip-like tale of a simple black cat... what more do you need for a night filled with terror? We revive the original maker of horror and suspense for one night of classic chilling tales. Join us and sleep soundly... nevermore.
Week three we awaken The Golem by Tom Mula on Monday, October 21st at 7:00pm.
It's a tale as old as time. Boy meets girl, boy falls in love with girl, boy happens to be a huge man-made-of-clay summoned by a Rabbi to protect the Jewish ghetto in Prague during the dark ages, boy wreaks havoc on the citizenry, girl dies horribly, boy returns to the clay from whence he came. Nothing much unusual here. Or is there?
Week four is Lilith's Cave and Other Stories by Howard Shultz, on Monday October 28th at 7:00pm
Before there was Eve, there was Evil. The ancient Jewish myth holds that Adam's first wife was Lilith, and she refused to submit to him and instead banished herself from the Garden of Eden to give birth to the demons of the world. Tread lightly with us as we peek into Lilith's Cave and see what we can make of the mysteries, mysticism, and supernatural we find there.
For more information about other programs that are part of the Free Fall Baltimore program, visit http://www.freefallbaltimore.org.
We deeply appreciate the support of our donors who make Free Fall Baltimore possible. Special thanks goes to the National Endowment for the Arts, the Maryland State Arts Council, American Trading and Production Corporation, The Abell Foundation, Henry and Ruth Blaustein Rosenberg Foundation, and Pearlstone Family Fund.
Snow Glass Apples
By: Neil Gaiman
-Monday October 7th - 7pm
Admission is Free!
Refreshments will be served!
Community Meeting Room
Weinberg Park Heights JCC
5700 Park Heights Ave.
An apple laced with poison, a coffin made of glass, skin ice cold and snow white, and lips red with blood... sound like a fairy tale? Join us for this chilling re-imagining of the story of Snow White from the Step-Mother's point of view. The master of modern fantasy, Neil Gaiman, gives us this delectable play for voices.
Join the JTW for a casual evening of theater as we read in a seated but lively style. Admission is free, and there is no need for a reservation.
Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
-Monday October 14th - 7pm
Admission is Free!
Refreshments will be served!
Community Meeting Room
Weinberg Park Heights JCC
5700 Park Heights Ave.
A Raven seated on the pallid bust of Pallas, the tell-tale beating of an unyielding heart, and the whip-like tale of a simple black cat... what more do you need for a night filled with terror? We revive the original maker of horror and suspense for one night of classic chilling tales. Join us and sleep soundly... nevermore.
Join the JTW for a casual evening of theater as we read in a seated but lively style. Admission is free, and there is no need for a reservation.
The Golem
By: Tom Mula
-Monday October 21st - 7pm
Admission is Free!
Refreshments will be served!
Community Meeting Room
Weinberg Park Heights JCC
5700 Park Heights Ave.
It's a tale as old as time. Boy meets girl, boy falls in love with girl, boy happens to be a huge man-made-of-clay summoned by a Rabbi to protect the Jewish ghetto in Prague during the dark ages, boy wreaks havoc on the citizenry, girl dies horribly, boy returns to the clay from whence he came. Nothing much unusual here. Or is there?
Join the JTW for a casual evening of theater as we read in a seated but lively style. Admission is free, and there is no need for a reservation.
Lilith's Cave and Other Stories
By: Howard Shultz
-Monday October 28th - 7pm
Admission is Free!
Refreshments will be served!
Community Meeting Room
Weinberg Park Heights JCC
5700 Park Heights Ave.
Before there was Eve, there was Evil. The ancient Jewish myth holds that Adam's first wife was Lilith, and she refused to submit to him and instead banished herself from the Garden of Eden to give birth to the demons of the world. Tread lightly with us as we peek into Lilith's Cave and see what we can make of the mysteries, mysticism, and supernatural we find there.
Join the JTW for a casual evening of theater as we read in a seated but lively style. Admission is free, and there is no need for a reservation.
Rumors
By: Neil Simon
Curated By: Chava Sussman Goffin
-Monday, November 18, 2013 - 7pm
Admission is Free!
Refreshments will be served!
Community Meeting Room
Weinberg Park Heights JCC
5700 Park Heights Ave.
The Deputy Mayor of New York has just shot himself... in the ear. As four couples gather for their tenth wedding anniversay, the host lies bleeding in the other room and his wife is nowhere in sight. His lawyer, Ken and wife Chris must get "the story" straight before the other guests arrive. As the confusions and mis-communications mount, the evening spins off into classic farcical hilarity.
Join the JTW for a casual evening of theater as we read in a seated but lively style. Admission is free, and there is no need for a reservation.
Laughter on the 23rd Floor
By: Neil Simon
Curated By: Isaac Kotlicky
-Saturday, December 21, 2013 - 8:30pm
Admission is Free!
Refreshments will be served!
Community Meeting Room
Weinberg Park Heights JCC
5700 Park Heights Ave.
Inspired by Neil Simon's youthful experience as a staff writer on Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows, with all the attendant comic drama as the harried writing staff frantically scrambles to top each other with gags while competing for the attention of star madman "Max Prince". "Old style comedy: fast and furious." - Wall Street Journal.
Join the JTW for a casual evening of theater as we read in a seated but lively style. Admission is free, and there is no need for a reservation.
Harvey
By: Mary Chase
Curated By: Etan Weintraub
-Saturday, January 18, 2014 - 8:30pm
Admission is Free!
Refreshments will be served!
Community Meeting Room
Weinberg Park Heights JCC
5700 Park Heights Ave.
Elwood P. Dowd has a best friend named Harvey...a six and a half foot tall rabbit that only Elwood can see and hear. As his family tries to deal with his eccentric behavior, Elwood begins to have an effect on the people he meets, and more of them begin to see Harvey as well. Join the JTW for the hilarious events that ensue as we investigate whether it is better to be "Oh, so smart, or oh, so pleasant."
R.U.R. - Rossum's Universal Robots
By: Karel Capek
Curated By: Michael Turniansky
-Saturday, February 22, 2014 - 8:30pm
Admission is Free!
Refreshments will be served!
Community Meeting Room
Weinberg Park Heights JCC
5700 Park Heights Ave.
This 1920's Czech classic introduced the word "Robot" to the English language! Come see what happens as humans create a race of artificial beings to do their bidding, and then the carnage that ensues as that race turns on their former masters!
The 49th Cousin
By: Florence Lowe and Caroline Francke
Curated By: Ron Zyna
-Monday, March 24, 2014 - 7:00pm
Admission is Free!
Refreshments will be served!
Community Meeting Room
Weinberg Park Heights JCC
5700 Park Heights Ave.
Isaac Lowe is a cantankerous, opinionated man. He founded a synagogue in Syracuse at the turn of the century, and almost wrecked it. His possessiveness and prejudice kept his three daughters on the verge of spinsterhood until they revolted against him. Only the generosity of others could finally make him see the error of his ways. But a lightning bolt hitting the temple might also help...
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
By: Edward Albee
Curated By: Todd Shaffer
-Monday, June 23, 2014 - 7:00pm
Admission is Free!
Refreshments will be served!
Community Meeting Room
Weinberg Park Heights JCC
5700 Park Heights Ave.
Winner of 5 Tony Awards including Best Play of 1963, and recently nominated for Best Revival in 2013, this is the work that cemented Edward Albee's place among the modern greats of the American Theatre. George and Martha's iconic evening of bitter escapades has stunned and captivated audiences for years. Join them as they delve into the hurt and frustrations of their past and reveal the mess they've made of their marriage and their lives.
The Glass Menagerie
By: Tennessee Williams
Curated By: Todd Shaffer
-Saturday, November 15, 2014 - 8:00pm
Admission is Free!
Refreshments will be served!
Weinberg Park Heights JCC
5700 Park Heights Ave.
Amanda Wingfield is a faded, tragic remnant of Southern gentility who lives in poverty in a dingy St. Louis apartment with her son, Tom, and her daughter, Laura. Amanda strives to give meaning and direction to her life and the lives of her children, though her methods are ineffective and irritating. Tom is driven nearly to distraction by his mother's nagging and seeks escape in alcohol and the world of the movies. Laura also lives in her illusions. She is crippled, and this defect, intensified by her mother's anxiety to see her married, has driven her more and more into herself. The crux of the action comes when Tom invites a young man of his acquaintance to take dinner with the family. Jim, the caller, is a nice ordinary fellow who is at once pounced upon by Amanda as a possible husband for Laura. In spite of her crude and obvious efforts to entrap the young man, he and Laura manage to get along very nicely, and momentarily Laura is lifted out of herself into a new world. But this crashes when, toward the end, Jim explains that he is already engaged. The world of illusion that Amanda and Laura have striven to create in order to make life bearable collapses about them. Tom, too, at the end of his tether, at last leaves home.
Game Show
By: Lew Riley
Curated By: Etan Weintraub
-Saturday, December 20, 2014 - 8:00pm
Admission is Free!
Refreshments will be served!
Weinberg Park Heights JCC
5700 Park Heights Ave.
This comedy goes behind the scenes and then in front of the cameras as it follows five fascinating contestants: a fidgety Vietnam veteran; a know-it-all senator's assistant; a cocky young filmmaker; a dizzy housewife/author; and a bubbly senior citizen, from the time they meet backstage at a popular game show until one of them wins the grand prize. Who wins the big money is one of Game Show's several compelling subplots. Another is the possibility of a rekindled romance between one of the contestants and the show's production assistant. And then there are the hilarious antics of the game show's narcissistic emcee and his beautiful bimbo of an assistant. Who was the only bachelor president? What boy dubbed Lauren Becall's voice when she sang in To Have and Have Not? What was unusual about Babe Ruth's uniform when he hit 60 home runs? These and other intriguing questions are answered during Game Show, a warm and witty look at an American institution, the television game show.