Better Don’t Talk

A daughter discovers her mother’s hidden past in Better Don’t Talk, a musical tribute to Yiddish comedienne Chayela Rosenthal. The internationally-acclaimed one-woman show is written and performed by Rosenthal’s daughter Naava Piatka. The solo performance touches upon how Rosenthal kept her cancer a secret from her oldest daughter, just as she had never shared her own past as a Holocaust survivor and “Wunderkind of the Vilna Ghetto Theatre.” The production coincides with Holocaust Memorial Week.