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Image for Voices UnderwaterFamily Alchemy: Malamud & Paley
Stories on Stage

Ashby Stage,
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Mar. 2 – 12, 2006
Buy tickets online for Berkeley
or call 415/522.0786

Mt. View Ctr. for the Perf. Arts
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Mar. 16 – 19, 2006
Buy tickets online for Mt. View
or call 415/522.0786

Tickets $22 - $38
(Discounts for students, seniors and groups of 5 or more. Thursday night is pay-what-you-can.)



Read the reviews

The Magic Barrel by Bernard Malamud and The Story Hearer by Grace Paley

Directed by Joel Mullennix

Performed by Jeri Lynn Cohen, Corey Fischer, Max Gordon Moore and Naomi Newman

The words of Bernard Malamud and Grace Paley will explode into vivid theatrical life when TJT brings the stories of these American Jewish masters to our stage, completing the trilogy we began with The Jewbird and Goodbye and Good Luck in 2000 and Windows and Mirrors in 2003. This time we've chosen The Magic Barrel, one of Malamud's most beloved and haunting stories, from his 1956 National Book award-winning collection of the same name, and The Story Hearer, Paley's astonishing tour-de-force, an O. Henry award winner.

“the expert performances in Traveling Jewish Theatre’s Word-style presentation bring the literary riches vividly to life.”
— Rob Hurwitt, SF Chronicle (October, 2003)

Reviews
Links to reviews of Family Alchemy

 SF Chronicle
“The company's third such evening of Malamud and Paley stories is as witty, touching, beguiling and gently enlightening as were the first two."
—Robert Hurwitt, San Francisco Chronicle Theater Critic
Wednesday, February 8, 2006.

SF Bay Guardian
"Less adaptation than transposition, Family Alchemy is like the written word in a rapturous dance with the rallied resources of the theater. " 
-Robert Avila, San Francsico Bay Guardian

J Weekly
"Lovers of good storytelling, superb acting and innovative theater are hereby advised to run Ñ not walk Ñ to see this show..."
-Suzanne Weiss, J Weekly

SF Weekly
 "TJT never drops the ball, and the result is pure storytelling -- simplified, thrilling, and vigorously reinvented, a slap in the face to anyone who has ever said theater is dead"
-Nathaniel Eaton, SF Weekly

Eastbay Express
" Seeing Newman and Fischer work together is one of the great delights of Bay Area theater"
-Lisa Drostova, Eastbay Express

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