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Excerpt from Theater Mania 10/12/09: John Shea

Pizzarelli, et al. Set for Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center
By: Tristan Fuge · Oct 12, 2009 · Berkshires

The Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center has announced their fall and winter programming.
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Also on tap will be the Symphony Space's "Selected Shorts" production of Tales of Amazement: Surprising Stories from the World of Yiddish Literature (December 6), which will feature actors John Shea and Isaiah Sheffer.

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WNYC 11/15/09: John Shea

Rebel Yiddish Writers: Unusual stories from Yiddish writers, and a contemporary take on Job.
Sunday, November 15, 2009

The first two stories on this program were read at a SELECTED SHORTS live performance called “Rebel Yiddish Writers,” devoted to writers who rebelled against the traditional description of much of modern Yiddish literature—realistic, sentimental, and nostalgic elegies of the European shtetl and passions of the immigrant-filled Lower East Side.

In contrast, the writer Moishe Nadir, whose story “My First Love,” begins the program, was a 1920s Greenwich Village bohemian who wore a French beret and smoked cigarettes in an ivory holder, set in his teeth at a rakish angle. Some of his modernist tales ventured into the surreal, like “The Man Who Slept Through the End of the World”, heard in an earlier SELECTED SHORTS season. “My First Love,” is more realistic, but also extravagant and playful, and is read by the Irish-American actor who originated the role of the yeshiva boy in Isaac Bashevis Singer’s play YENTL, John Shea.

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