THEATRE NEWS:
Harold Green Jewish Theatre puts down roots
13 APR/11

JOHN COULBOURN - QMI Agency

After four years wandering Toronto’s theatrical wilderness, Harold Green Jewish Theatre is coming home to the St. Lawrence Centre.

At an event Tuesday announcing the company’s forthcoming 2011-12 season, co-artistic directors David Eisner and Avery Saltzman revealed that their heretofore peripatetic company will put down roots in the Jane Mallet Theatre for their forthcoming season. That season will be launched with a two-show engagement of Mamaloshen (Mother Tongue), an evening of Yiddish music featuring Mandy Patinkin, followed by a run of Yisrael Campbell’s one-man show, titled Circumcise Me.

Next up will be the world première of Hannah Moscovitch’s The Children’s Republic, in a co-production with the Tarragon Theatre, directed by Alisa Palmer and starring Peter Hutt in the role of Dr. Janusz Korczak.

On the heels of his success with Sholom Aleichem: Laughter Through Tears, Theodore Bikel returns to HGJTC in Jeff Baron’s Visiting Mr. Green, under the direction of Christopher Newton, before the company closes its season with a new production of Neil Simon’s Lost in Yonkers, directed by Jim Warren and starring Happy Days’ Marion Ross, Linda Kash and Eisner in his acting debut with the company.

Single tickets will be available Aug. 1 but information and subscriptions, priced from $199 to $396, are available now at 416-366-7723 or at hgjewishtheatre.com.