Yiddish Stage Legend Mina Bern Tells Life Story May 22
By Robert Simonson
22 May 2005
On May 22, the Folksbiene Yiddish Theatre will present the legendary actress
Mina Bern in her one-woman stage memoir, Mina Bern: A Life on the Stage, A
Personal Memoir Told in Song and Story at the Jewish Community Center
in Manhattan, 334 Amsterdam Avenue at 76th Street.
Mina Bern won an Obie Award for her performance in Folksbiene's production of
Sweet Dreams in 1999. Other Folksbiene productions include
An American Family and
Yentl. Bern was a star in her native Poland, then in Russia and then in Israel at its founding, before coming to New York in 1949. In the late '60s and early '70s, she appeared on Broadway in shows like
Light, Lively and Yiddish, Sing, Israel, Sing, and
Let's Sing Yiddish.
To order tickets, which are $18, call (800) 994-3347, or visit the Folksbiene
on the Web at www.folksbiene.org.
