TEATRON
Toronto Jewish Theatre

TEATRON Toronto Jewish Theatre, now in its seventh season, is a professional theatre company producing Jewish themed plays from Canada and the world's communities, unveiling the treasures of Jewish tradition, enriching and inspiring the Jewish experience of all theatregoers, leading to better understanding and harmony, while maintaining Jewish values. Winner of the North York Mirror's best live theatre award for 2009.

2009-2010 Season

BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS

A comedy by Neil Simon
November 11 to 22, 2009

The winner of the New York Drama Critic's Circle award for Best Play, tells the story of 15-year-old Eugene Jerome, growing up in Brooklyn in 1937, fantasizing about becoming a baseball star while observing, in his witty, perceptive and funny way, his family's way of living and rising to the challenges that face them with pride, spirit and a marvellous sense of humour.
 

"Neil Simon's funniest, richest and consequently the most affecting of his plays." -N.Y. Daily News

"Simultaneously poignant and funny. The characters are fully dimensional, believable.... An outstanding show ... the best seen on Broadway in too long a time." -Variety

"Hilarious comedy.... His finest play... A delightful and enriching experience."-CBS-TV

BLUISH

A comedy by Janece Shaffer
March 3 to 14, 2010

When Ben's gentile fiancée finds out that she is really Jewish, Ben and his Jewish family each react differently to her enthusiastic total immersion in her new-found tradition. A Canadian Premiere after a number of successful productions south of the border.

"A strong show throughout... the dialog is very funny and very natural" - Atlanta's Theatre Review

"A tender, funny and romantic play that crosses multiple generations in its look at relationships struggling with concepts of culture and family." - Atlanta & Company

2008-2009 Season

A GLIMPSE OF THE LIGHT

THE DYBBUK

What the media said about TEATRON:

"CHAIM'S LOVE SONG is a simple and touching, and at times uproariously funny play. Best of all it is enlivened by Irving Dobbs' larger-than-life portrayal of Chaim.
CHAIM'S LOVE SONG is a sweet show, without ever becoming saccharine. Weisberg notes in the program that after reading the play several years ago he fell in love with it. You will too."
- The North York Mirror, Mark Andrew Lawrence

"TEATRON’s The God of Isaac is often hysterically funny and at times surreptitiously touching. The performers under Ari Weisberg's crisp direction keep the play moving at a quick and steady pace building to a correct yet surprising ending. Don't miss it!"
- The North York Mirror, Mark Andrew Lawrence

"It’s not often that a theatre production is able to do justice to a great novel and a great movie, but TEATRON Theatre’s production of The Chosen proves beyond a doubt that it can be done. Director and producer Ari Weisberg’s use of lighting and stage direction combine brilliantly to juxtapose the past and the future, as well as the orthodox and secular Jewish home."
- Town Crier, Sandie Benitah

"Ari Weisberg has done an admirable job of directing The Chosen, making it a vivid and timely theatre piece. You don’t have to be Jewish or religious to enjoy the work. Sure there’s a spiritual quality to The Chosen, but it’s a universal one"
- Jewish Tribune, Barbara Shainbaum

"An entertaining and thoughtful production… Director Ari Weisberg and the cast of The Sisters Rosensweig have given the play careful consideration. Each of the performers completely understands the motivations of their characters."
- The Mirror, Mark A. Lawrence.