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King of the Jews Tickets

This profound new play brings the 1979 novel to life starring Richard Topol (Indecent).
New York, NY

King of the Jews

This profound new play brings the 1979 novel to life starring Richard Topol (Indecent).
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About King of the Jews

One night after curfew in the Astoria Café, a group of waiters and cooks and entertainers, along with a spare rabbi or two, are forced by the German occupiers to form a Judenrat, a group of self-governing Jews who will thenceforth govern the lives—and determine the deaths—of their co-religionists in the ghetto that surrounds them. In that first act, they are forced, at a terrible cost, to choose their Elder, who is based on the true-life character Chaim Rumkowski, leader of the Lodz Ghetto in Poland.

In the second act, eighteen months later, we see the Judenrat and its leader confronted with the terrible moral dilemma of having to decide: Who among their fellow Jews is to live and who is to die? It is not a choice that any human being in a world that has not become morally unhinged and absurd can make. And yet they must. In the madness and double-dealing and even humor that ensues, we join these ordinary mortals as they plumb the depths of the unimaginable that history has thrust upon them.

KING OF THE JEWS is based on Leslie Epstein’s novel, published in 1979 and directed by Alexandra Aron. Cast includes Richard Topol, Rachel Botchan, David Deblinger, John Little, Daniel Oreskes, Allen Lewis Rickman, JP Sarro, Dave Shalansky, Jonathan Spivey, Erica Spyres, Wesley Tiso and Robert Zukerman.

Run time

2 hours & 30 minutes with intermission

Start date

October 24th, 2023

End date

November 19th, 2023

Categories

Age

16 and older

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Reviews

Audiences Say
Absorbing, Thought-provoking, Ambitious, Great acting, Great staging
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Elisa 9119
Thought-provoking, Intelligent, Great acting, Great staging, Absorbing
85 / 100
DOUG Rob NYC
Profound, Relevant, Intelligent, Great acting, Absorbing
90 / 100
Gale
Relevant, Profound, Absorbing, Atmospheric, Heavy
90 / 100
Chatterbox
Intelligent, Great acting, Intense, Thought-provoking
92 / 100
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Venue

HERE Arts Center

145 6th Ave, New York, NY, United States, 10013
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