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Great Performances | The Thomashefskys | PBS

Duration: 01:54:31 (Full Program)
Program: Great Performances Dance In America #3706
Broadcast Date: Mar. 29, 2012

Watch Broadway's Judy Blazer as Bessie Thomashefsky and Shuler Hensley as Boris Thomashefsky re-create early Yiddish Theater. Recorded in April 2011 at the Frank Gehry-designed New World Center, The Thomashefskys is written and hosted by Michael Tilson Thomas and stars Blazer and Hensley with Ronit Widmann-Levy and Eugene Brancoveanu and the New World Symphony.

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Post Date: March 29, 2012