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Leah Forster’s new off-Broadway show is anything but Orthodox
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They created a musical about the 2011 Egyptian Revolution. Today’s activists are listening
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In this ‘Merchant of Venice,’ tragedy tomorrow, comedy tonight
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Jason Alexander lives out a lifelong dream, playing Tevye in ‘Fiddler on the Roof’
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