Black Box Studios shows

Published: 06 January 2012

In addition, Black Box Studios will present the Moriah Middle School Drama Program’s production of “Grease,” directed by Matt Okin with musical direction by Matthew Brady, at the Moriah School in Englewood, on Jan. 7 at 8 p.m., and Jan. 8 at 4:30. Tickets will be $5 at the door.

Ongoing Black Box Studios’ theater programs at the Jewish Center of Teaneck include the Intergenerational Theater Workshop which will perform “The Music Man,” Jan. 10 at 7:30 p.m., and Jan. 14 at 8. The Adult Acting Workshop will perform “Circle Mirror Transformation,” January 9 and 12 at 7:30 p.m. Both Starting Out on Stage and Continuing on Stage will collaborate to perform “Scenes and Songs from Peter Pan” on Jan. 17 and Jan. 18 at 6:30 p.m. Showtimes for the Pro Drama Workshops for Teens will perform “The Dark at the Top of the Stairs” on Jan. 11 at 7:30 p.m. and Jan. 15 at 8. “Seussical Jr.” will be performed by the Musical Theater Workshop for Kids on Jan. 16 at 6:30 p.m., and Jan. 17 at 7:30. The Pro Musical Theater Workshop for Tweens will perform “The Secret Garden (Spring Edition)” on Jan. 15 at 4 p.m. and Jan. 16 at 8.

Black Box Studios is a Partnership Program with the Jewish Center of Teaneck. For information, www.blackboxnynj.com.

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‘Eavesdropping on Dreams’

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Miriam Rinn • 4 May 2012

Theater

We have seen the Shoah treated as somber tragedy, as adventure story, as cartoon, and as farce. Now, in the new play “Eavesdropping on Dreams” by Rivka Bekerman-Greenberg, we have the Shoah as soap opera. The production by the Barefoot Theatre Company directed by Ronald Cohen at the Cherry Lane Theatre unfortunately mistakes histrionics for emotion, and manages to present a two-hour play about arguably the greatest tragedy experienced by a people without a moment of believable feeling in it.

“Eavesdropping on Dreams” focuses on the relationship between three women: Rosa or Raizel (Lynn Cohen) who survived four years in the Lodz ghetto, working as a hatmaker; her neonatalogist daughter Renee (Stephanie Roth Haberle) who devotes herself to saving babies and playing sex games; and Renee’s daughter Shaina (Aidan Koehler), a young woman who dropped out of medical school, broke up with her boyfriend, went on March of the Living to Lodz, and has just returned home transformed. Rosa is also visited periodically by the ghosts of her brother Yakov and Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, the “king of the Jews,” who turned the ghetto into a workshop in order to convince the Nazis that the residents were too valuable to kill, at least right away.

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