Past-Productions

PRAYER FOR THE FRENCH REPUBLIC, by Tony Award nominated playwright, Joshua Harmon, follows the members of a French-Jewish family with an American cousin, in all their family messiness. An incident occurs and the family is sent into a tumult, questioning if they really are safe as Jews, even in a country where they are proud…

SHPIEL THEATRE, WITH ACTORS THEATRE OF LOUISVILLE, IS PROUD TO PRESENT: #CHARLOTTESVILLE Written and Performed by Priyanka Shetty Directed by Yuri Urnov Sept 14, 2025 2pm and 7pm Two Performances Only! Actors Theatre of Louisville 316 W Main Street Direct from its sell-out premieres in Washington DC, New York City and the 2025 Edinburgh Fringe…

Thursday, July 24th @ 7PM LOCATION: Bellarmine University, Wyatt Center for the Arts (1700 Loftus Cir, Louisville, KY 40205) QUESTION 27, QUESTION 28 by: Chay Yew (abbreviated version) A riveting dramatic reading, freshly performed at the Illinois Holocaust Museum, of compelling stories by Japanese Americans interned in concentration camps during World War II. Directed by:…

May 4, 2025 | 2:30pm CDT 9603 Woods Drive, Skokie, IL 60077 In partnership with renowned theater producer and director David Y. Chack, Illinois Holocaust Museum presents a live performance of Question 27, Question 28, a compelling play by Chay Yew. Staged, in an abridged version, in conjunction with the exhibition Resilience: A Sansei Sense…

SHPIEL THEATRE’S NEXT PRODUCTION ROOM 1214 BY MICHELLE KHOLOS BROOKS LOUISVILLE PRODUCTION DIRECTED BY DAVID Y. CHACK AT KENTUCKY PERFORMING ARTS, FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY FEBRUARY 13, 2025 (Thursday, Opening Night); FEBRUARY 14 at 7:30 PM ; FEBRUARY 16, 2:00 PM (Sunday Matinee) FEBRUARY 19, 20, 21, 22 at 7:30 PM ; 23 at…

LOUISVILLE, KY., June 3, 2024— ShPIeL-Performing Identity announces the second annual summer theatrical showcase, Smiles of a Summer ShPIeL Showcase, highlighting Jewish and intersectional plays/performances of diversity — full and short plays, new and old, comedy and drama, and musical cabaret — spread out over three performance dates (see below) to add to your summer…

Come see this brilliant play’s newest iteration for FREE on Monday June 10, 2024 at 2pm. Produced by JewFace, a theatre collective program developed with ShPIeL Performing Identity, run by LA-based artists Casey Adler and Yvonne Cone. About the Play: Three and a Half Anne Franks by Maya Macdonald Three people audition to play Anne Frank in…

CHAGALL IN SCHOOL by James Sherman (Beau Jest, The God of Isaac, The Ben Hecht Show), February 8 – 17 at The Kentucky Center – MeX Theater. CHAGALL IN SCHOOL, a dramatic comedy, presents the story of Marc Chagall, one of the 20th century’s. greatest artists, following the social change after the Russian Revolution. Born…

Staged Reading of 3 New Jewish Short Plays from JewFace Plays at Der Nister | September 10 Los Angeles, CA — Three new short plays from writers Shira Gorelick, Matt Gottlieb, and Lauren Schaffel are receiving a staged reading at Downtown LA’s Der Nister on September 10. The plays are part of the first cohort…

FREE OF CHARGE 7PM – THURSDAY, JULY 27 A staged reading of Colin Greer’s (playwright of Imagining Heschel) current work-in-progress Spinoza’s Solitude, a play following the life of philosopher Baruch Spinoza, who changed all of Western thought and was excommunicated from his Dutch Jewish community. 7PM – FRIDAY, JULY 28 6:45 with a light dinner…