Fully staged productions of two short contemporary comedies by Bruce J. Bloom: “Daniel Ortega and Those Yom Kippur Blues” and “The Last Request of Eddie Carmichael/Cohen.”

based on a play by Celeste Raspanti
Directed by Sharon Ohrenstein

Charles Troy squeezes these twists and turns into one packed program – the whole megillah – punctuated by klezmer music that mirrors the soul of a vibrant but distant era. Charles is an acclaimed musical theatre historian and graphic designer who has created over 60 multimedia presentations and has appeared before countless local and national audiences. He has given his programs in Sarasota for the last ten years, but never before presented “The Whole Megillah” here. This is his first presentation for Sarasota Jewish Theatre.

by Clark Young and Derek Goldman
Directed by Gus Kaikkonen
In a virtuoso performance, SJT favorite Michael Raver portrays the Polish World War II hero and Holocaust witness Jan Karski, who risked his life to carry his report of the Warsaw ghetto from war-torn Poland to the Allied Nations and the Oval Office, only to be met with inaction and disbelief. This story of moral courage and individual responsibility is a cautionary tale about the dangers of complacency and the ways in which a self-described “ordinary little man” can become a true hero.

by Charles Busch
Directed by Gus Kaikkonen
An uproarious, intelligently funny and satirically relevant comedy which ran for 777 performances on Broadway. When Marjorie Taub, a middle-aged Upper West Side doctor’s wife who is devoted to mornings at the Whitney, afternoons at MOMA, and evenings at BAM, plunges into a mid-life crisis, the only thing that shakes her out of her lethargy is the reappearance of a fabulous, fascinating and somewhat mysterious childhood friend.

by David Gow
Directed by Diane Cepeda
SJT is repeating a play that was presented over Zoom in our first season in the midst of the pandemic. We believe that this play is so timely and important that it should be presented to a wider audience. When a white supremacist brutally attacks an immigrant and is assigned a Jewish public defender, both men’s lives are changed forever. Cherry Docs is even more relevant today than it was six years ago, raising issues about immigration, antisemitism and the law that are as immediate as today’s news.