Finally, there’s Jonah (Mark Della Ventura), a pushover who avoids conflict at all costs, but has a deeper side hidden below his doormat exterior.ĭaphna and Liam have been at each other’s throats for years, but things finally explode between them when Liam not only misses the funeral and brings home his Gentile girlfriend Melody (Lexi Langs), but also refuses to yield his claim to a precious heirloom of their grandfather’s, a chai necklace, which Daphna desperately wants. in Japanese cultural studies who is eager to sever all ties with his Jewish roots. Liam Haber (David Rosenberg) is her polar opposite, an atheist pursuing a Ph.D. Daphna Feygenbaum (Natalia Coego) is an aspiring rabbi who is deeply connected to her heritage and dreams of moving to Israel and enlisting in the army. The trio could not be more different from each other. In Julliard graduate Joshua Harmon’s bitingly comedic script, long simmering tensions in the younger generation of a Jewish family boil over when the patriarch’s funeral brings together three cousins in one New York studio apartment. GableStage has developed a reputation for staging plays fresh from their debuts on the New York stage, and “Bad Jews” is no exception its critically-acclaimed original Off-Broadway production at Roundabout Theatre closed less than a year ago. Rivalry between relatives escalated into a knock-down, drag-out war about the nature of identity and the value of culture in GableStage’s darkly comic production of “Bad Jews.” There’s no question about it: No one fights quite as dirty as family. Sounds like the set-up for a bad joke, but for the Haber family, it’s just another family gathering, and at the end of the night, nobody’s laughing. A rabbi, a skier, a college student and a blonde walk into an apartment.

Family feud set 2014