Theater review This isn't Barbra Streisand's 'Yentl' - it isn't I.B. Singer's either

There's an FAQ on the website of the London theater where the Kadimah Yiddish Theatre of Melbourne's production of Yentl is running through April 16. The very first item reads:

Is this a stage version of the 1983 musical film starring Barbara Streisand?

No - the London production of Yentl is a play. It is a new adaptation of Isaac Bashevis Singer's 1962 short story, "Yentl the Yeshiva Boy" - just like the Streisand film was at the time.

This explanation does more than relieve box office staff of the tedious duty of informing Mrs. Lipschitz and Mrs. Rosenblatt from the sisterhood that no, they...