Welcome to the Home of the Apple Tree Series.
The books in the Apple Tree Series follow the Bieman family over four generations through the twentieth century in Mountaindale, New York. Filled with spirituality and spirit, humor and heart, these stories also detail the importance of the Catskill Mountains in Jewish American History.
Out of the Apple Orchard
by Yvonne David
Illustrated by Lyn Rodden
(Arbiter Press)
A 2006 Independent Publisher Book Awards
Honorable Mention
Multicultural Fiction – Children’s
Published by Arbiter Press and illustrated by Artist Lyn Rodden, Out of the Apple Orchard was a 2006 Independent Publisher Book Awards Honorable Mention for Multicultural Fiction – Children’s. Award-winning playwright and Smith College Theatre Professor, Ellen W. Kaplan, adapted her book to the stage. Since 2006, Nicole Raphael, Artistic Director of the Mesaper Theatre, produced an annual staged play reading of this adaptation in New York City for several years. Following a sold-out concert reading at the Lowndes Shakespeare Center in Orlando, Florida, the well-received Orlando Premiere took place at the Orlando Repertory Theatre under the direction of Tony Award-Winning Producer, Kenny Howard, in December 2016.
Out of the Apple Orchard - Interviews from Patty Wolfe Media Group following the Orlando Premiere of Out of the Apple Orchard at the Orlando Repertory Theatre.
Off-Broadway is On
The New York City Premiere of
by Ellen W. Kaplan based on the book of the same name by Yvonne David
The Actors Temple Theatre
339 W 47th Street, New York, NY 10036
In the Times Square Theatre District
September 2023
Founded in 1917 as the West Side Hebrew Relief Association, the Actors Temple Synagogue became the connecting point for Jewish entertainers in the nearby theater district. Red Buttons, Jack Benny, Shelley Winters, and Henny Youngman were among those who performed in the famous Catskill Mountains during the Twentieth Century.
The Mountains proved a training ground for such luminaries.
ACTORS TEMPLE THEATRE is housed in the historical Actors Temple Synagogue building in the heart of New York’s Times Square Theatre District. This theatre has been the home of the long-running production of Black Angels Over Tuskegee, which played for almost ten years year Off-Broadway, as well as Soul Doctor, Zero Hour, Rain Pryor’s Fried Chicken and Latkes, Sistas, It’s Just Sex, The Big Voice: God or Merman?, Goldstein, The J.A.P. Show: Jewish-American Princesses of Comedy and Paul Mecurio’s Permission To Speak.
Edmund Gaynes operates Actors Temple Theatre.
Out of the Apple Orchard - Highlights from Patty Wolfe Media Group on Vimeo.
The New York City Premiere of
Out of the Apple Orchard.
September 2023
Off-Broadway
Actors Temple Theatre
in the Times Square Theatre District.
Out of the Apple Orchard.
By Ellen W. Kaplan
Based on the book of the same name
By Yvonne David
Directed by Nicole Raphael
Set Designer Robert Sauber
Forthcoming Book 2 in the Apple Tree Series, The Night Sky Lined with Silver by Yvonne David and illustrated by Robert Sauber, is planed for release in 2023.
Award-winning playwright, Ellen W. Kaplan, is also adapting the second book in the Apple Tree Series to the stage.