Rebecca Salzhauer is a writer and theatermaker based in New York.
Rebecca Salzhauer
By Rebecca Salzhauer
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Theater Can one of our most problematic musicals finally overcome its racist past?
A new version of 'Show Boat' reimagines Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein's Broadway classic
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News Photos: Remembering Jimmy Carter’s most Jewish moments
Photographer Robert A. Cumins captured Carter during trips to Israel, signing the Camp David Accords and at Shabbat dinner
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Theater In Germany, they were superstars — and then the Nazis came to power
'Harmony,' Barry Manilow's musical about the Comedian Harmonists, is a sometimes-labored labor of love
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Culture The overlooked musical that prepared Barbra Streisand for ‘Funny Girl’
Streisand's Broadway debut as a frumpy secretary in 'I Can Get It For You Wholesale' set the stage (literally) for her breakout performance as Fanny Brice
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Culture Rachel Bloom’s new show is all about death — and it may be her most Jewish one yet
The ‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’ creator is back with a musical comedy about looming mortality and existential dread
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Fast Forward Roseanne Barr addresses controversy: ‘Of course I don’t believe that the Holocaust never happened’
The actress and comedian says that the clip of her denying the Holocaust was a joke taken out of context
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Fast Forward Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: My friend Roseanne Barr needs to ‘immediately clarify her statements’
Barr, who is Jewish, has joined Boteach in speaking out against antisemitism in the past
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Fast Forward Roseanne Barr, in strange tirade, says ‘nobody died in the Holocaust’ but ‘they should have’
Barr, who is Jewish, spouted antisemitic rhetoric and conspiracy theories on a recent podcast. Her son says she was being sarcastic.
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