Great Performances  The Thomashefskys

Music and Memories of a Life in the Yiddish Theater Details

 

Program: Great Performances

Episode: The Thomashefskys

Watch Broadway's Judy Blazer as Bessie Thomashefsky and Shuler Hensley as Boris Thomashefsky re-create early Yiddish Theater. Recorded in April 2011 at the Frank Gehry-designed New World Center, The Thomashefskys is written and hosted by Michael Tilson Thomas and stars Blazer and Hensley with Ronit Widmann-Levy and Eugene Brancoveanu and the New World Symphony.

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Duration: (1:54:31)
Premiere Date: 03/29/2012
Episode Expires: Never
TV Rating: TV-PG


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