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TJT's 29th Season 2007 - 2008

Next up:

  • May 10 - 11, 2008

2 X Malamud

3 shows only before touring to Arizona
(see home page for details)

  • May 29 - June 1, 2008

Windows on the Work

our latest series of staged readings of new Jewish plays

Friday and Saturday at 8PM, Sunday at 7PM
stay tuned for details.


Season So Far:

Our hit production, Dead Mother closed on February 17 to full houses whose enthusiasm clearly echoed that of the critics: "...a raucously funny, magnetic and penetrating comedy ... delightfully challenging, blissfully heady, continually surprising and great good fun."  
- R. Hurwitt, SF Chronicle 
[more]

 

Following on the heels of last season’s acclaimed production of Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller,  TJT brings you  two brilliant Bay Area premieres that offer wildly different looks at so-called “dysfunctional” Jewish families.

Dead Mother
or Shirley Not All in Vain 

by David Greenspan

January 10- February 17, 2008

Directed by Tony Kelly. A Co-Production with Thick Description

Featuring Deb Fink, Corey Fischer, Gabriel Marin,  Dena Martinez, Louis Parnell and Liam Vincent

In this post-modern farce, Harold got away with impersonating his dead mother once and now he has to do it again, and again, and again. But in the hands of celebrated New York playwright David Greenspan, this comic situation runs through bad marriage, bad acting, Greek myth, and the circles of Hell, bending genders and theatrical reality along the way in a savagely funny, sharp and haunting 90 minute romp through the confusing layers of identity and family.  Thick Description introduced this writer to the Bay Area in 1992 with acclaimed productions of his earlier work. This time, they've invited us to collaborate on this extravagantly gifted writer's greatest work.

 

Read the raves:

San Francisco Chronicle

Oakland Tribune

Marin I.J.

Examiner


 

The Model Apartment
by Donald Margulies

Directed by Amy Glazer


Postponed Until Next Season

 

Featuring TJT's Naomi Newman and a guests TBA
In this masterful dark comedy, a husband and wife attempt an escape from much more than their memories of surviving the Holocaust.  Their promised land, a Florida condo, is anything but the refuge they so desperately seek. 

The last time the play was produced -- its NYC premiere -- In 1995,  New York Times critic, Ben Brantley, wrote that it was full of “dark wit and gentle lyricism…” as well as “diabolical ingenuity and rueful tenderness.” The Village Voice said  that it was "…among the most complex and daring Holocaust plays I've seen…[Margulies] shifts sentimentality into a dark and honest pain."

 

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