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The Jew who put Hitler on trial — and the play that stages his story
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Goldman turns up a lot in musicals — what would she think of that?
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Why is everyone laughing at Anne Frank?
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Richard Linklater wants you to remember Lorenz Hart
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An unprecedented, and unfinished, work of Yiddish scholarship is now an opera
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A new play asks: What if the biblical matriarchs lived today?
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How often does Tim Blake Nelson think about ancient Greece?
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