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When the cast heard the audience's reaction, at first they wondered if they'd done something wrong
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For a Jewish family in Ukraine, a wrenching choice between Israel and the U.S.
In Stephanie Satie's 'Last Parade,' a domestic argument reflects global conflicts
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Two very different Jewish couples confront a very similar sense of dissatisfaction
Anna Ziegler's 'The Wanderers' arrives off-Broadway, starring Katie Holmes
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In savaging the Israeli military, has a legendary puppet theater finally gone too far?
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There’s something so Jewish about how very un-Jewish Stephen Sondheim was
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Film & TV Why Stephen Sondheim is in ‘Glass Onion’
The late Broadway icon was also a puzzle fanatic and lover of murder mysteries
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Michael Feingold was a critic with the rarest of qualities — charity, sensitivity and a gift for playwriting
The onetime critic for the Village Voice will be remembered for a half-century of service to the theater
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Yiddish ‘Fiddler’ returns, a stirring reminder of Jewish loss and revival
The Folksbiene production reconciles the need to speak a universal language, as well as a specific one
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Once upon a time, there was an Adolf Hitler Street on Long Island
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Why Arthur Miller paid a price for greatness
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In ‘Leopoldstadt,’ Tom Stoppard shows that there’s a difference between a Jew of culture and a cultural Jew
The playwright’s first reckoning with his Jewish past is too busy with history to engage in emotion
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