Yiddish Art Theatre

[1][2] At its opening on August 30, 1918, Schwartz's company was housed at the Irving Place Theatre in Union Square, Manhattan.

[5][6] Over these first years the company presented works by playwrights including Leonid Andreyev, S. Ansky, Sholem Aleichem, Jacob Gordin, Maxim Gorky, Peretz Hirschbein, David Pinski, Arthur Schnitzler, George Bernard Shaw and Oscar Wilde.

[1] Shows produced by Maurice Schwartz at this new venue included a production of "Yoshe Kalb" which ran for 300 performances.

[8] The Yiddish Art Theatre operated for approximately 32 years from its founding, finally disbanding in 1950.

[9][10] Over that time it performed classics of Yiddish, European and English theater, ranging from works by Sholem Aleichem to William Shakespeare.