Adapted from a story by Isaac Bashevis Singer, Barbra Streisand’s Yentl tells the story of a young woman born to an Ashkenazi shtetl in Poland whose love for studying the Talmud drives her to impersonating a man (and taking on her late brother’s name Anshel) in order to enter a yeshiva. In school she meets Avigdor (Mandy Patinkin), whose engagement to Hadass (Amy Irving, in an Academy Award-winning performance), has been called off despite their mutual love. Over time, Yentl/Anshel develops feelings for Avigdor, meaning she might have to choose between maintaining her secret for the sake of her studies, or pursuing a traditional marriage that would forbid them. Though honored during its initial run, Yentl’s critical standing has only grown in the decades since, enduring as a beloved and formidably distinct American musical, a thoroughgoing portrait of turn-of-the-century European-Jewish (and eventual Jewish emigre) life, and Streisand’s greatest filmmaking achievement.

Paired films discount—purchase a ticket for Yentl alongside Hester Street in the same order for a discount: buy both tickets for $20 total for members and $25 total for nonmembers.