What: A Cleveland Play House production of the classic gender-bending tale by Leah Napolin and Isaac Bashevis Singer, based on the short story "Yentl, the Yeshiva Boy" by Singer. Directed by ...

“And by the way, had nobody noticed that this was, after all, a movie about Jews ... Avigdor tells Yentl that now that she has dropped the guise of being a boy, she can do what women are ...

The fight in “Yentl” for equal opportunity is one seen in the real-life struggle to get the film made. Streisand had to fight to direct the movie, becoming the first woman to earn a Golden ...

The problem with doing a play after a movie version with Barbra Streisand ... Bashevis Singer from Singer's short story "Yentl, the Yeshiva Boy" — is the story of a young girl who defies her ...

Our movie marathon moves on to an excerpt from Yentl, the 1983 Barbra Streisand movie. Some of the music Michel Legrand wrote for that film features the harp. This is an arrangement for harp and ...

“Yentl,” of course, is based on the short story “Yentl the Yeshiva Boy,” about a young woman ... differs tremendously from the Streisand-conceived movie musical. Streisand had even changed ...

But one of the weirder pop culture jokes in the movie is the one about two more unlikely references: Barbra Streisand’s “Yentl,” and Disney’s “Frozen.” The joke runs throughout the ...

The two sit on a couch in Ben's apartment watching Streisand in 1983's "Yentl," in which she plays Yentl Mendel, who dresses and lives like a man so she can receive an education in Talmudic ...

April 30 (UPI) --Barbra Streisand says she felt accepted as a female director while working on her 1983 movie Yentl in England, but did not find the same support when she returned to the United ...