King of the Jews

First Preview: Oct 24, 2023

Opening Date: Oct 28, 2023

Closing Date: Nov 18, 2023

Running Time: 02:30

https://here.org/shows/king-of-the-jews/

Playing @

HERE

145 6th Ave, New York, NY 10013

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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.

Off Broadway Play - Drama

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

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Accessibility

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 theatre.
Curb Ramps

available
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

Water available from the cafe
Folding Armrests

None