The Dybbuk, winner of the 2025 Outstanding Production Elliot Norton Award, returns to Boston for limited encore performances! A mystical Yiddish folktale, this is a story of love, family, displacement, and the restless Jewish soul.
Following the performance, join in conversation with Igor Golyak, Founding Artistic Director of the Arlekin Players Theatre, and David Mazower, Editorial Director of the Yiddish Book Center.
David Mazower
David Mazower is the Yiddish Book Center’s research bibliographer and the chief curator and writer of the Center’s landmark permanent exhibition, Yiddish: A Global Culture. Prior to joining the Center, he was a senior staff journalist with BBC World News in London and deputy curator of the Jewish Museum London. He writes for the Digital Yiddish Theatre Project and is the author of Yiddish Theatre in London. His dozens of published articles include several on his great-grandfather, Yiddish writer Sholem Asch, as well as explorations of Yiddish theater and popular culture, British Jewish history, Jewish art, and the Yiddish salon of Bronx poet Bertha Kling. He graduated in history from Cambridge University and has a postgraduate diploma in Russian.
Igor Golyak
Igor Golyak is the founder and artistic director of Arlekin Players Theatre & Zero Gravity (zero-G) Theater Lab. He directed the New York premiere of Our Class at BAM in 2024, and conceived and directed The Orchard starring Mikhail Baryshnikov and Jessica Hecht Off-Broadway in 2022. Most recently, he directed the remount of Our Class followed by The Merchant of Venice Off-Broadway at Classic Stage Company, and adapted and directed a US premiere of The Dybbuk at Boston's historic Vilna Shul. A global leader in the virtual theater movement, in 2023 he directed Just Tell No One, part of the Worldwide Ukrainian Play Readings/CITD, at Lincoln Center featuring Jessica Hecht, Bill Irwin, and David Krumholz, and directed the virtual elements of Sasha Denisova’s The Gaaga (US premiere).