"Everything Is Illuminated"

"Everything Is Illuminated" Lights Up the Stage

Jonathan Safran Foer's award-winning novel -- about a young American Jewish writer who travels to the Ukraine to find the woman who may've saved his grandfather from the Nazis -- makes its journey to the stage with its blend of sharply-realized comedy and deeply-affecting drama blessedly intact. Accompanied by Alex, a pop-culture obsessed, English-mangling translator, Alex's grandfather and his overly amorous dog Sammy Davis Jr. Jr., they embark on an eventful trip to uncover a past that turns out to be packed with surprises. This East Coast premiere comes to the Theater J stage at the Edlavitch DCJCC.