Live from NYC: Tevye and Friends

The Congress for Jewish Culture will bring their three-person show, Tevye’ and Friends from NYC to the DMV. The production draws on the writings of famed Yiddish playwright Sholem Aleichem. His funniest and yet poignant stories depicting the everyday trials of his fellow countrymen are laid out with acerbic wit and stirring sentiment. Among the stories are “Strange Jews on a Train” where the prohibition against gossip is thrown out the sidecar window as a stranger inquires a fellow passenger about their destination. The situation is familiar to many: you are on a train, bus or plane. You want to know about the place yet sometimes get more information than you bargained for. In a “Stepmother’s Trash Talk” curses are served up as the main course in this meal as insults are doled out with sharp tongued wit. In “Tevye the Dairyman”, this trio grapples with the story of Chava and her non-Jewish Ukrainian love and the cultural shifts facing the European Jewish immigrant in America.