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The JET provides a stage for the exploration of ideas that confront issues of humanity and community from a Jewish perspective. Integrated into the east wing of the Jewish Cultural Center, the JET provides the highest-quality entertainment while being a platform for understanding and community.
Visit JET's website at http://www.jettheatre.org.
The Whipping Man
This arresting new play blazes with intelligence, making everything we think we have always known new again as Simon hauntingly intones, "Let all who are in need come celebrate Pesach".
September 7-October 2
Imagining Madoff
This Midwest premiere presents a story with a lesson in honesty and Judaism so searing it may change what you think forever.
October 19-November 13
Red Diaper Baby
This is out and out fascinating--the Jews' need for radicalism and social change is examined closely in this performance piece that you will remember forever!
December 3 & 4
God of Carnage
This comedy about two urban couples attempting to maturely resolve an altercation that occurred between their 11-year-old sons is a tour de force that won the Tony Award for Best Play of 2009!
December 7-January 1
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Race
Whether Mamet is endlessly inventive or just a careful observer in a world where everybody is on the make, you won't want to miss this instant classic with rapid fire dialogue and plot twists.
January 25-February 19
My Brooklyn Hamlet
My Brooklyn Hamlet is Brenda Adelman’s acclaimed one-woman show about family, murder, love, betrayal and the awesome power of forgiveness.
March 3 & 4
M. Butterfly
Constructed as a series of flashbacks narrated by imprisoned diplomat Galimard, this play is an intricate series of realities turned inside out. This Pulitzer Prize nominee that originally starred John Lithgow is exceptionally startling because of its truth.
May 2-May 27
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