Join us at the Berney Theatre for a musical gathering this holiday season! Songs & Sufganyot is an evening get-together for musicians and music lovers to enjoy some favourite show-tunes and holiday songs. Secure your FREE ticket in advance and join in on the fun! Feeling like taking the next step in celebrating and would like to volunteer to perform? Please email info@wjt.ca. But there is no pressure to get on stage! It is a relaxed shared space, and we invite you to meet up with friends, enjoy a warm holiday drink, and cheer on your performer pals! This is a FREE event, however pre-registration is required. Any donations to the theatre are appreciated!

Join playwright Daniel Thau-Eleff for a conversation about the what, why, and how of playwriting… from the heart! Daniel will discuss his writing process – where it came from and where it is going, where it overlaps with and where it diverges from others’ creative processes. In the final hour of the workshop, Daniel will guide the group through some writing prompts, so bring your notebook. You may walk away with some material towards your next project. Daniel Thau-Eleff (he/him) is a Winnipeg-based playwright, artistic producer of Moving Target Theatre, Master’s student in Peace and Conflict Studies, and Associate Managing Director of Manitoba Association of Playwrights. He calls his plays “personal-political,” meaning they explore social justice issues through individual characters’ struggles, mixing documentary and autobiographical elements into fiction. Daniel has performed his solo-shows across Canada. His latest play, Narrow Bridge, exploring the struggles of transgender people in Orthodox Judaism, premiered in 2023 at Winnipeg Jewish Theatre. He co-created Peer Voices, a short video about harm reduction which can be viewed at MovingTargetTheatre.com. Daniel was recognized for his theatre work with the 2018 Manitoba Human Rights Commitment Award.

In this intimate show, multi-award winning stage and cabaret performer Gabi Epstein shares her own journey of self-discovery using reimagined, rearranged versions of Barbra Streisand’s greatest hits. Hailed “Canada’s Queen of Cabaret” by CTV, Gabi Epstein is a DORA AWARD winner and one of Canada's leading stage/cabaret performers best known for playing Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors at the Stratford Festival, and Fanny Brice in Funny Girl at the Segal Centre and for the Harold Green Jewish Theatre. Winnipeg audiences may remember Gabi from her 2017 stint in Little Shop of Horrors at Rainbow Stage. Gabs Sings Babs debuted at the Toronto Jazz Festival and has subsequently been performed at the Segal Centre, Globus Theatre, and the Port Stanley Festival Theatre. Accompanied by Mark Camilleri, the intimate and heartwarming show promises to leave you laughing and singing along!

Seth Zosky and CJ Capital considered Kanye West to be one of their biggest inspirations on their paths to becoming singer-songwriters and America’s Got Talent contestants. Now the pair search for answers, as they stretch the blurred lines of song and protest. What do you do when the artist you admire hates you simply for who you are? Is it possible to separate art from its artist? How can reclaiming ‘cancelled’ music make us stronger?

In an era of rising nationalism and heightened politics, two friends are torn apart when the Nazi regime infiltrates their lives to devastating effect. Based on the 1938 bestselling book, which was written as an anti-fascist call to arms and banned in Germany for dramatically exposing the threat of Nazism, Address Unknown is a timely warning of how humanity can fail in the face of extreme ideology. Since its adaptation to the stage, the show has played to audiences all around the world, including Off-Broadway, London’s West End, Germany, and Israel. The Winnipeg Jewish Theatre presents the Canadian premiere of this poignantly vital story.

Life’s traffic signals are there to guide us, teaching us to slow down, stop or go when needed. In this uplifting award-winning show, four performers constantly face moments of decision - all through song. Jason Robert Brown is an American-Jewish musical theatre composer and playwright. Brown's music sensibility fuses pop-rock stylings with theatrical lyrics. He is the recipient of three Tony Awards for his work on Parade and The Bridges of Madison County.