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Follow on Google News | New Jersey Repertory Company presents Two Jews Walk Into A War...In a dilapidated synagogue in Kabul during the final days of the Taliban regime, the one thing that binds the last two surviving Jews in Afghanistan is that they hate each other! Inspired by a true story, it is very funny & amazingly poignant.
Two Jews Walk into a War is a funny and poignant play set in a dilapidated old synagogue in Kabul during the final days of the Taliban regime. Ishaq and Zeblyan are the last two surviving Jews in all of Afghanistan. The problem is, they hate each other and spend their days hurling insults at one another while struggling to recreate the sacred Torah. Could it be that the salvation of Afghanistan’ Performances are Thursdays, Fridays at 8pm; Saturdays at 3pm and 8pm; Sundays at 2pm with selected Sundays at 7pm. No matinee on Dec 12. No performances on Dec 24, 25 or Jan 1. Tickets are $40; $36 (seniors 65+), Opening night with reception $60; Previews /FT Students: $35. Group rates available for 10 or more. For tickets and additional information call 732-229-3166, email info@njrep.org or visit www.njrep.org. NJ Rep is handicapped accessible and offers free on-site parking and easy access from NJ Transit and Academy Bus Lines. Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and Discover are accepted. "Gives them something to think about while they are laughing. So satisfying." - Palm Beach Post "A rollicking farce. A terribly funny fable." - Sun Sentinel "Now that's great theatre." - Miami Herald Seth Rozin (Playwright) JAMES GLOSSMAN (Director) Upcoming projects: The Price (w/Orson Bean & Stephanie Zimbalist), Shadowland Theatre, NY; Bluff (w/John Astin), BoarsHead Theatre, MI; benefit performance of Noël Coward's final play A Song at Twilight (w/Kelly Bishop, Maryann Plunkett & Paxton Whitehead), Luna Stage Co, NJ. At NJ Rep: Circumference of a Squirrel, Tour De Farce, as well as various readings for the NJ State Arts Council. Other recent projects: Death of a Salesman (w/Frankie Faison); David Wiltse's Sedition and The Good German, both co-productions of Shadowland and Playwrights Theatre (where he is Associate Artistic Director); Mrs Warren's Profession (w/Paula Prentiss & Prentiss Benjamin); The Value of Names (w/Jack Klugman, Dan Lauria & Liz Larsen), George Street Playhouse, NJ & Falcon Theatre, L.A.; The Gin Game (w/William Schallert); All My Sons (w/Richard Benjamin & Paula Prentiss); world premiere of Guillermo Reyes' Sunrise at Monticello at Playwrights; REATHEL BEAN (Ishaq) most recent Broadway role was in Tony Kushner’s Caroline, or Change, His other Broadway plays include Our Town, with Paul Newman; Inherit the Wind, with George C. Scott; and the musicals, Big River, Baby, and Doonesbury. He has recently appeared at Playwrights Theater of NJ, Shadowlands Theater, and Luna Stage. In addition to other work in regional theaters and a number of films, he has appeared in all three of the Law and Order series, The Third Watch, Ed, and Spin City. JOHN PIETROWSKI (Zeblyan) is the artistic director for Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey. At PTNJ, he has directed the Workshop Productions of Sally's Porch by Russell Davis, I See My Bones by Kitty Chen, Sister Calling My Name by Buzz McLaughlin and three shows in Rowing to America: The Immigrant Project. He has also directed productions of Acts of the Apostles, Mark's Gospel, and Genesis at PTNJ, the latter piece also moving to productions at the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland and the Lamb's Theatre in NYC. Other New York productions include four short plays by Fred Stroppel and Any Friend of Percy D'Angelino Is a Friend of Mine, by Jason Milligan, at the West Bank Cafe, Song of Grendelyn by Russell Davis, at the Public Theatre and Alice's Fourth Floor, I See My Bones for Urban Stages, and other plays at the Actor's Outlet and Arts Club Theatre. He has directed two radio plays for the WNYC Radio Stage Consortium, St. Joe's Takes the Radio Stage and The Rehearsal, both of which have aired on National Public Radio. He also directed the stage adaptation of The Rehearsal, by J. Rufus Caleb, at the New Harmony Project. His two plays Black Madonna and The Buda have been performed at PTNJ, Foundation Theatre, Loaves and Fish Theatre and Arts Club Theatre. Mr. Pietrowski was also the Program Coordinator of the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Theatre Program for Teachers and Playwrights from 1988-94. A graduate of Northwestern University's Performance Studies Department, he also holds a Masters of Public Administration degree in non-profit management from Seton Hall University and teaches acting, directing and theatre history at Drew University and Fairleigh Dickinson University. # # # A professional non-profit 62-seat theater in Long Branch, NJ committed to developing and producing new plays, returning to the basics where text is paramount, so as to make a contribution to the repertoire of the American stage. End
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