Talya Zax is the Forward’s opinion editor. Contact her at [email protected] or on Twitter, @TalyaZax.
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By Talya Zax
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Culture ‘Oslo,’ ‘Indecent,’ And ‘If I Forget’ Nominated For Drama Desk Awards
Nominees for the 62nd Annual Drama Desk Awards, announced this past Thursday, include J.T. Rogers’s “Oslo,” Paula Vogel’s “Indecent,” and Steven Levenson’s “If I Forget.” Those three plays were each nominated for Outstanding Play. Nominees for Outstanding Musical included “The Band’s Visit,” while “Falsettos” and the Barrow Street Theater’s site-specific staging of “Sweeney Todd: The…
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Culture POEM ALERT: Why Is The New Yorker’s Editor Playing Al Franken?
Editor’s Note: A report that New Yorker David Remnick will be playing the role of Al Franken in a one-night-only Public Theater has moved our correspondent to verse, for better or worse. One is a hero of the liberal bastion The other’s prose stylings are always in fashion When the latter acts the former, on…
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Fast Forward Harvey Fierstein, Paula Vogel To Receive Legend Of Off Broadway Awards
The 7th Annual Off Broadway Alliance Awards will honor Harvey Fierstein, Paula Vogel and Israel Horovitz as Legends of Off Broadway, alongside Athol Fugard, Charlotte Moore, and Estelle Parsons. The honorees were announced last Wednesday, along with the nominees for the Awards. Fierstein, Vogel and Horovitz — all playwrights, although Fierstein is also an actor…
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Fast Forward Forward’s Naomi Zeveloff Wins National Award For ‘Tour De Force’ Piece On ‘Children Of Jerusalem’
The Forward’s Middle East correspondent, Naomi Zeveloff, has won a 2016 Sigma Delta Chi Award for her story “What Ever Became Of The ‘Children Of Jerusalem’?” published last April. The awards, distributed by SPJ, were established in 1932. Zeveloff won the award for non-deadline reporting at a non-daily publication. “Naomi’s story is a journalistic tour…
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Culture Paula Vogel To Receive Obie Lifetime Achievement Award
Playwright Paula Vogel will receive an Obie Award for Lifetime Achievement at the 62nd Annual Obie Awards. Vogel, who recently made her Broadway debut with “Indecent,” has previously won two Obie Awards. She won the 1998 Pulitzer Prize in drama for “How I Learned to Drive,” was awarded the PEN/Laura Pels Award in 1999, has…
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Culture How The JCC Manhattan Inspired This Tribeca Film Festival Winner
What does it take to win two of the Tribeca Film Festival’s most prestigious prizes? Apparently, aside from talent, willpower and funding, a dose of inspiration from the JCC Manhattan will do the trick. Director and writer Rachel Israel’s film “Keep the Change” took home the Festival’s juried awards for Best U.S. Narrative Feature and…
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The Schmooze A Banned Israeli Romance, And More To Read, Watch, And Do This Weekend
Dorit Rabinyan’s novel “All The Rivers” caused a scandal in Israel, where the novel, which follows a romance between an Israeli Jewish woman and a Palestinian man, was banned from schools by the Ministry of Education. Its English translation arrived this week, as did a sobering essay by Rabinyan about the isolation she faced after…
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