In memory of The Holocaust, we are proud to present a staged reading of the critically acclaimed Broadway play The Gathering, written by Arje Shaw, directed by Nancy Carlin, with Ariel Bernstein, Ed Nattenberg, Amy Prosser, and. Arje Shaw
The Gathering is based around the 1985 visit by President Ronald Reagan to Bitburg Germany to lay a wreath at a military cemetery, containing Hitler’s S.S. elite forces. Reagan's act not only infuriated the world, but in The Gathering, tears a father and son apart. The task of bridging generational conflict and hatred is left to the youngest, on the eve of his Bar Mitzvah and a young German security guard.
The Gathering was first produced in 1999 at The Jewish Repertory starring Theodore Bikel and Jesse Eisenberg, followed by The Broadway production in 2001 at The Cort Theater, starring Hal Linden. It was produced in 2016 in San Francisco and Berkeley’s Live Oak Theater directed by Joy Carlin.
Arje Shaw is a Russian émigré who came to New York City as a child with his parents and sister from a German Displacement camp after the Second World War. After a career in social work, he became a writer, playwright, producer, and performer. In 2001, Mr. Shaw’s The Gathering was produced at The Cort Theater on Broadway starring Hal Linden, following the off-Broadway production with Theodore Bikel and Jesse Eisenberg. His first play, A Catered Affair, was produced off-Broadway in 1992. In 2004, Magic Hands Freddy premiered at The Soho Playhouse and was voted the most popular New York play in The Wall Street Journal survey. His novel, The Fix, based on his life, was published in 2011. Moolah is playing off-Broadway at the Arias Theater, beginning April 5, 2018. Next season he is performing a one man show, Freddy Goes Solo, and in staged readings of a new play, Marriage In Play. Mr. Shaw lives happily in Berkeley with Esther, his amazing wife and source of his material for of 53 years, and as always dedicates his work to his children and family…and the memory of the martyrs.
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