In this ‘Merchant of Venice,’ tragedy tomorrow, comedy tonight
Igor Golyak’s production brings the show back to a comedic mode the way Shakespeare intended — to make a point about antisemitism
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They created a musical about the 2011 Egyptian Revolution. Today’s activists are listening
"We Live in Cairo," now playing at the New York Theatre Workshop, takes on new resonance in light of pro-Palestinian protests
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Jason Alexander lives out a lifelong dream, playing Tevye in ‘Fiddler on the Roof’
'I wanted to do a piece that is proudly Semitic' said the Tony winner and ‘Seinfeld' star
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The Tony Award-winning actor plays a plucky Jewish immigrant in a timely revival
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"Our Class," produced by the Classic Stage Company, tells the story of a true and timely Holocaust-era atrocity
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Ex-hasidic, trans and brutally honest, Lili Rosen invites you to her ‘Second Circumcision’
The one-woman show is a funny, poignant account of the performer’s transition
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A zombie story about the Holocaust? This audio drama makes it work.
The dead come alive as a parable for Holocaust memory in an unorthodox new audio mini-series
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At the nexus of Bertolt Brecht and Bernie Sanders, a young playwright finds his place
An avowed socialist, Jesse Jae Hoon uses his plays to merge the personal and the political
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‘Once Upon a Mattress’ started at a Jewish summer camp. Now it’s making a rowdy return to Broadway
A look into the socialist Jewish summer camp origins of the campy musical theater hit
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The ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ revival has us wondering — where are all the Jewish Shelley Levenes?
Bob Odenkirk is slated to play the Jewish character in David Mamet’s drama on Broadway
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For a Jewish Boricua whose great-grandfather spoke Yiddish, theater is almost a birthright
Antonia Cruz-Kent, daughter of celebrated playwright Migdalia Cruz, writes plays that explore her multiple identities
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