Female Jewish Punk Rocker Author To Tell Unique Story In West Hartford

Playhouse on Park

HARTFORD/WEST HARTFORD, CT - Get ready to rock, rage, and plotz when the Charter Oak Cultural Center in Hartford brings author Chef Rossi to Playhouse on Park in West Hartford next week.

Rossi, an author and punk rocker (who happens to be Jewish) will be on hand Tuesday, Oct. 29, at 7 p.m. to discuss, read, and sign her acclaimed new memoir, "The Punk Rock Queen of the Jews."

She will be joined in conversation with local playwright Jacques Lamarre, who wrote the stage adaptation of "The Raging Skillet," Rossi’s previous memoir chronicling her life as New York’s wildest caterer.

"The Punk Rock Queen of the Jews" is Rossi’s wild, queer coming-of-age story.

She was taught only to aspire to marry a nice Jewish boy and to be a good kosher Jewish girl.

At 16, she flowered into a rebellious punk-rock rule-breaker who runs away to seek adventure.

Her freedom is cut short when her parents kidnap her and dump her with a Chasidic rabbi—a “cult buster” known for “reforming” wayward Jewish girls—in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.

Tickets are $10. No one turned away for lack of funds. Copies of "The Punk Rock Queen of the Jews" will be on sale with Rossi happily signing after the talk.

Tickets can be purchased at www.PlayhouseOnPark.org or by calling 860-523-5900 x 10.
Playhouse on Park is located at 244 Park Road, West Hartford.