Identity, Heritage, Culture, and Allyship
ShPIeL is a 501(c)3 non-profit arts and culture organization registered in Kentucky, and our mission is to develop, incubate, produce and promote Jewish, multicultural, and intersectional theatre out of identity, heritage, and authenticity. Through this ShPIeL promotes social justice, dialogue, knowledge, and responsibility in order to challenge antisemitism, racisms, and xenophobias of all kinds. Through promoting the power of Jewish and diverse identities and their stories, we truly believe that more understanding and inclusiveness can be achieved, that creates understanding, joy, allyships and tikkun olam (Heb.) - repair of the world.
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UP NEXT: Room 1214
by Michelle Kholos Brooks
LOUISVILLE PRODUCTION DIRECTED BY DAVID Y. CHACK
AT KENTUCKY PERFORMING ARTS, FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY
FEBRUARY 13, 2025 (Thursday, Opening Night); FEBRUARY 14 at 7:30 PM ; FEBRUARY 16, 2:00 PM (Sunday Matinee)
FEBRUARY 19, 20, 21, 22 at 7:30 PM ; 23 at 2:00 PM (Sunday Matinee)
Inspired by interviews with the history teacher who experienced the 2018 mass shooting at in Parkland, Florida., at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, this stirring new play, by award winning playwright Michelle Kholos Brooks (H*TLER’S TASTERS), follows the teacher as she returns to the school and her Holocaust studies class, asking “What if you could rewrite history?” In memory, she reunites with her students as they were – playful, funny, full of life’s potential, and courageous – real kids with bright futures.
Read Artistic Director David Chack’s interview with Carey Perloff, author of the new book, Pinter and Stoppard: A Directors View.
LEARN MORE
ShPIeL values our community partner, Frazier Kentucky History Museum for this free event on January 30, 2025 from 6-7 PM.…
LEARN MOREIN THE NEWS: Read Artistic Director David Chack's article in Forward, regarding the censorship of Paula Vogel's play Indecent, in Jacksonville, Florida.
The Bluegrass Schmooze: Teddy Abrams explores why so many Christmas classics were written by Jewish composers.
New York Times (behind paywall): Here We Are - How Jewish People Built the American Theater As We Know It.
Producing & Developing Allyship Theatre and Continuing the Conversation
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