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A new play asks: What if the biblical matriarchs lived today?
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How Anne Frank inspired a musical about Mexican-American immigrants
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Why Nick Jonas should not sing ‘Shiksa Goddess,’ the outdated song from ‘The Last Five Years’
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William Finn, Tony-winning writer of queer, Jewish musicals dies at 73
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The delightful musical erases its main character’s Jewishness, and much of his true motivation
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