BY RENEE CALARCO

Two STAGED READINGS directed by Mitchell Fields* and featuring: Adina Bloom*, Natalie Green*, Sheri Gross, Devra Levine and Chris Richards*

SUNDAY, DEC. 8, 2024, at 3 pm; and MONDAY, DEC. 9, 2024, at 7 p.m.

HOSTED AND CO-PRESENTED by THE MANDEL JCC, 26001 South Woodland, Beachwood, OH

Synopsis: Dr. Sharon Naftali has come to town to discuss her new book, “Christmas at Grossinger’s.” She’s written about the celebrated Carroll sisters, the two greatest Borscht Belt singers nobody’s ever heard of. Resuming her national tour just a week after her father’s funeral, Sharon struggles to keep it together…. until she literally and figuratively collides with the sisters who inspired her research. This comedy with heart blends family, Yiddish swing music and the healing powers of time-traveling scholarship.

RENEE CALARCO’s work has been produced all over the US., including at the Kennedy Center, Theater J, The Jewish Plays Project, Adventure Theatre and many more. In 2015, Interplay performed staged readings of her play G-d’s Honest Truth, winner of the 2014 international New Jewish Playwriting Competition. She will attend the Sunday performance of Christmas at Grossinger’s.

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• appears courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association