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Due to
circumstances beyond our control, the
2 X Malamud tour and the local performances
scheduled for May 10 - 11 have been postponed.
We won't be producing anything further this season. Please re-visit this site soon for exciting news about TJT's future. We'll also be initiating a new series of discussions on our blog. We apologize for any inconvenience. If you have any specific questions, please email response@atjt.com
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
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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:
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."