Show Finder
King of the Jews
First Preview: Oct 24, 2023
Opening Date: Oct 28, 2023
Closing Date: Nov 18, 2023
Running Time: 02:30
Playing @
HERE
145 6th Ave, New York, NY 10013
One night after curfew in the Astoria Café, a group of waiters, cooks and entertainers, along with a spare rabbi or two, are forced by the German occupiers to form a Judenrat, a group of self-governing Jews who will thenceforth govern the lives—and determine the deaths—of their co-religionists in the ghetto that surrounds them. In that first act, they are forced, at a terrible cost, to choose their Elder, who is based on the true-life character Chaim Rumkowski, leader of the Lodz Ghetto in Poland. Later, in the second act, we see the Judenrat and its leader confronted with the terrible moral dilemma of having to decide: Who among their fellow Jews is to live and who is to die? It is not a choice that any human being can make, not in a world that has not become morally unhinged and absurd. And yet, they must. In the madness, double-dealing and even humor that ensues, we join these ordinary mortals as they plumb the depths of the unimaginable that history has thrust upon them. Presented by Parkman Productions.
Show Notes: 1 intermission
Performance Schedule
TUESDAY, THURSDAY & FRIDAY @ 7 PM
WEDNESDAY & SATURDAY @ 2 PM & 7 PM
SUNDAY @ 2 PM
Cast
- Richard Topol
- John Little
- Daniel Oreskes
- Erica Spyres & more
Written By
- Leslie Epstein
Director
- Alexandra Aron
TDF Tickets Offers:
Listed at 
Never
Full-price tickets:
$12.00 - $104.25
Accessibility
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Wheelchair Info
Removable seating. -
Seating
Mainstage seats 99 / Dorothy B. Williams Theatre Seats 74. -
Elevator/Escalator
There is an elevator that takes you to the lower level thatre. -
Curb Ramps
Yes -
Entrance
Houses two performance spaces - the 99-seat Mainstage and the 74-seat Dorothy B. Williams Theatre (down one flight of stairs); art galleries, and a café. The building entrance is street level -
Restroom
Located on both levels -
Water Fountain
There is a cafe -
Telephone
None -
Assisted Listening System
Some hearing aids. -
Visual Assistance
None -
Folding Armrests
None
