You don't have to be Jewish to love Jewish Theatre Grand Rapids!
Jewish Theatre Grand Rapids has chosen wonderful productions
to share with you this season.
Though our productions may have Jewish content, they are always universal in appeal. Our goal is to enrich the Jewish experience in West Michigan,
while informing, educating, and engaging all our patrons. It's live theatre to learn, love and laugh with!
PERFORMANCES are mostly on Thursdays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m., and Sundays at 3 p.m. Some shows may also include a Wednesday 7:30 performance. We have a new online subscription and ticketing system. If the PURCHASE TICKETS button is enabled on the sidebar you may purchase tickets online for any of our productions at any time. Even Season Flex Pass holders may make show date and seat selections using our online ticketing portal.
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April 17, 19, 23, 24, 26, 30, May 1 & May 3 @7:30
April 27 & May 4 @ 3:00
Written by Anat Gov
Directed by Brad Sytsma
This single mother felt the weight of the world. Her strange new client takes it to a whole new level.
June 5, 7, 12, & 14 @ 7:30
June 8 & 15 @ 3:00
Written by by Diane Samuels
Directed by Danira Stanojevic
WHAT IS “KINDERTRANSPORT”?
Kindertransport (translated to ‘children’s transport’) was a humanitarian rescue movement between 1938 and 1939 that evacuated nearly 10,000 Jewish children from Nazi occupied countries to Britain. Most of the children were between ages 4 and 17; some were babies carried by children, and none were accompanied by their parents. They were sent to foster homes, hostels, schools, and farms. Most children never saw their birth parents again.
SYNOPSIS
A Jewish child, Eva, is evacuated from Germany to Britain just before the outbreak of World War II. Eva grows up in Britain with her foster mother, renames herself Evelyn, and decides to keep her past a secret from her only daughter, Faith. One day, Faith finds her mother’s childhood belongings in the attic and uncovers the truth of her roots. Memories and present events wind around each other simultaneously as we witness Eva/Evelyn’s separation from her birth parents and her assimilation to a new country.
Kindertransport explores identity, motherhood, the cost of survival, and the reverberations of traumatic events through generations of a family.