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Theater In play after play, artists keep asking the Jewish question to which there is no answer
From 'Diary of Anne Frank' to 'Leopoldstadt,' 'Our Class' and 'Prayer for the French Republic,' a struggle to explain the scourge of antisemitism
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Culture An heir to Broadway royalty returns to the Great White Way with an unlikely musical
Adam Guettel's adaptation of 'Days of Wine and Roses' is a story of love and addiction
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Theater She’d never played a Jewish character before. Then, a hit play about antisemitism came along.
Francis Benhamou heads to Broadway with Joshua Harmon's 'Prayer for the French Republic'
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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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Fast Forward Jewish actors Bebe Neuwirth and Steven Skybell to join ‘Cabaret’ revival on Broadway
The Broadway veterans will play Herr Schultz and Fräulein Schneider, a Jewish fruit vendor and German landlady who fall in love during the Nazis' rise to power
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Culture How Barbra Streisand became a meme-able legend for a new generation
Sure, she has 43 Grammy nominations. But millennial and Gen Z fans might know Streisand best as the woman who cloned her dogs
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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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