Our 2025-2026 Season

GAZELLES & GARTERS: A SONG OF SONGS BURLESQUE!
Presented as part of the Philadelphia Fringe Festival
September 7-14th, 2025
Asian Arts Initiative Black Box: 1219 Vine Street, Philadelphia
​​"My lover is like a gazelle..."
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Biblical longing explored through Philly’s best Burlesque performers!
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by Bernard Weintraub
October 18th-19th & 25th-26th, 2025
​​FDR is committed to defeating the Third Reich – but what about saving the victims of the extermination camps? Against all odds, one man tries to break through the gatekeepers of the White House and the Jewish establishment to save the lives of millions…
THE ACCOMPLICES
Part of our Salon Series
A Yiddish Theatre Dim Sum
December 6th & 7th, 2025
Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History
101 S Independence Mall E, Philadelphia
Following successful off-Broadway and sold-out New York Fringe runs, this hilarious troupe of the younger generation of Yiddish theatre veterans (i.e., the not-dead ones) is bringing their show to Philly! Witness the entire history of Yiddish theatre, from the sublime to the appalling, in 83 New York Minutes, occasionally interrupted by irrelevant interludes about Yiddish editions of the New Testament or how to curse in Yiddish.
PRESENTED IN COLLABORATION WITH THE WEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY

THE ESSENCE

MARSHA BLOVOTNICK AND THE MARVELOUS MAGICAL CHICKEN SOUP
By Dan Kitrosser
WORLD PREMIERE - 2025-2026 Season Mainstage Production
March 12th-22nd, 2026
The Bluver Theatre @ The Drake, 302 S. Hicks Street, Philadelphia
Marsha Blovotnick is angry: at the world, her ex-wives, and her sister, who just invited herself over for Shabbat dinner. Could a magical pot of marvelous chicken soup be the cure for what angers her?
From the brilliant local playwright who brought you Why This Night? and one of the Good For the Jews one-acts!