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The Moscow Yiddish Theater.(Brief article)
The Moscow Yiddish Theater came into being, with state support, in 1919 and was liquidated by the Soviets in 1948. In the interim, it fostered some of the most daring theatrical innovations of the day, including productions that dispensed with makeup and the curtain and dressed actors in identical costumes. The director Aleksey Granovsky, insistent on young amateurs whose training he could supervise, promoted a cosmopolitan theatre, a departure from shtetl culture's historic proscription of dramatic performance. With a building decorated ...
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