It was announced in a March 2018 issue of Forbes Magazine that Academy Award winner-and-Tony Award winner Joel Grey would direct the production. Their production "Fidler Afn Dakh" had its first preview on July 4, 2018. The opening performance was July 15, 2018. The production won the 2019 Drama Desk Award For Best Musical Revival. The company's 2006 production of "Di Yam Gazlonim", a Yiddish adaptation of "The Pirates of Penzance", by Al Grand, was nominated for the 2007 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical Revival, and their 2012/13 Off Broadway production of "The Golden Land" was nominated for the 2013 Drama Desk Award for outstanding Musical Revival. In the summer of 2012, Folksbiene announced their plans to create an international Festival of new works in celebration of their Centennial in 2015. A play contest accompanying the festival was juried by producer Emanuel Azenberg; the Tony Award-winning composer and songwriter Jason Robert Brown ("Parade"), and the playwrights Joe DiPietro (Tony Award for "Memphis"); Obie Award-winning Israel Horovitz, and Pulitzer Prize finalist Jon Marans ("Old Wicked Songs"). A revival of the 1923 operetta The Golden Bride in 2015/16 drew press attention as a New York Times Theatre Critics Pick and garnered Drama Desk awards as well. The Folksbiene was a producer on the 2015/16 Broadway play "Indecent." In the Fall of 2017, the company staged an enhanced production of Abraham Goldfadn's "The Sorceress" as part of their restoration project – an endeavor that will restore lost or nearly lost Yiddish works to the canon of Yiddish culture. A fully stage production was mounted two years later in December of 2019. Crawford Merkel  Crawford Merkel (June 25, 1906 – March 1987) was an American bobsledder who competed in the 1930s. He finished fourth in the four-man event at the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. National Futsal League  The National Futsal League was the premier futsal league in England until the formation of the National Futsal Series in 2019. It is administered by a league management committee and not by The Football Association. The league was funded by The Football Association until the end of the 2018-19 season when the funding ceased due to the creation of the National Futsal Series. The league is played under FIFA rules, began in 2008 and features 57 teams in the 3 division pyramid for the 2018-19 season: FA Futsal Super League, Division 1 (North and South) and Division 2 (North, South and Midlands).