A Message from Arnold Mittelman After a career in not-for-profit and commercial theater spanning more than 40 years I was honored in 2007 to found the National Jewish Theater / Foundation and in 2010 to assume leadership of its Holocaust Theater International...
The Ben Hecht Show
Author(s): James Sherman
The story of Ben Hecht, the 1920s Chicago newspaperman who went on to become a playwright, screenwriter and novelist. The play is based on Hecht’s books, A Guide for the Bedevilled and A Child of the Century, in which Hecht confronts his own identity as an American Jew in the wake of the Holocaust.
Format: One-man show
Cast Size:1M
Snapshot
Original or Prominent Production:
Piven Theatre, Noyes Cultural Center, Evanston, June 17–July 17, 2016.
Piven Theatre, Noyes Cultural Center, Evanston, June 17–July 17, 2016.
Original Source Material: A Guide for the Bedevilled and A Child of the Century by Ben Hecht.
Nationality of Author: U.S.
Original Language: English
Experience(s) Chronicled: Reactions to the Holocaust
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