Austin Pendleton to Direct Etty Staged Reading

Austin Pendleton will direct a one-night-only performance of Susan Stein’s solo show Etty, to be offered at the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust on February 2 at 7pm.

The play is based on the letters and diaries of Etty Hillesum, a young Jewish woman in Amsterdam who documented her insights while facing Nazi brutality in 1943 and her struggle to maintain her faith in humanity on the eve of deportation to Auschwitz.

Pendleton’s production of Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters is currently playing at Classic Stage Company. Among his other recent directorial credits are Detroit at Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago and Othello for Oberon Theatre Company. As an actor, he just concluded a run in Henrik Ibsen’s Rosmersholm.

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