Give me 829 words to make you fall in love with one of the greatest artists who ever lived
Remembering Stephen Sondheim on the occasion of his birthday
Broadway
The Latest
-
Culture -
Culture David Mamet, Doing The Seemingly Inevitable, Has Written A Play About Harvey Weinstein
LOS ANGELES, Feb 23 (Reuters) – David Mamet has written a new play about film producer Harvey Weinstein, the Pulitzer Prize winner said in an interview published on Friday. Timing for production of the play, currently titled “Bitter Wheat,” is still to be determined, the report said. “I was talking with my Broadway producer and…
-
The Schmooze Does ‘Tootsie’ Really Need To Be Made Into A Broadway Musical?
The Schmooze will be the first to tell you that almost anything can be a great musical. Every time we hear some holier-than-thou would-be art critic, usually a dad or some other form of man, asking “Does “Mean Girls”/”Shrek”/that obscure tv show/the life of that interesting woman” really need to be made into a musical?”…
-
The Schmooze The Princess Diana ‘Bon Jovi’ Musical Heads To Broadway
Update note: This story was published on December 24, 2017. It was updated to reflect new developments for the musical on August 14, 2019. Britain’s royals now wear shorts, cry in public, and care about marginalized people. Now, a musical about Princess Diana’s wedding, written by the Jewish keyboardist for “Bon Jovi” is officially headed…
-
Culture This 25-Year-Old Jewish Guy Plays SpongeBob On Broadway
NEW YORK (JTA) — There’s a new star on Broadway and his name is — wait for it — SpongeBob SquarePants. “SpongeBob SquarePants: The Musical” opened earlier this month to rapturous reviews. And no one collected higher praise than the title character, played by Ethan Slater, a graduate of Ramah summer camps. For those unfamiliar…
-
Community Is It Anti-Semitic For Non-Jews To Associate Jews With Money?
Jews and money, money and Jews. How long have we been associated with money? Probably as long as our history. Money has enabled us to survive, to run quickly when the anti-Semites attack and to maintain ourselves in the face of prejudice and ostracism. Yet the association of Jews with money has been a constant…
-
The Schmooze Taylor Swift’s ‘Reputation’ Has Its First Great Cover
Oh, Taylor. What are we going to do with you? While “Reputation” wasn’t exactly hailed as a masterpiece by the American public, the treacly, cliché-ridden lyrics and sticky, conventional EDM inspired hooks coalesced into an album that facilitated one of the finest bits of musical theater to ever haunt the aimless void of YouTube. Meet…
-
Fast Forward Award-Winning Broadway Composer Michael Friedman Dies At 41
Award-winning musical theater composer and lyricist Michael Friedman died on Saturday at the age of 41. Friedman, best known for his 2010 musical “Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson,” died from complications with HIV/AIDS, according to the Public Theater in New York, where he worked as artist-in-residence. Friedman first rose to prominence in the early 2000s as…
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
Fast Forward Ye debuts ‘Heil Hitler’ music video that includes a sample of a Hitler speech
- 2
News ‘He was a mensch’: Slain Messianic Jew remembered as bridge-builder
- 3
Culture Ye’s antisemitism is old news, but it’s time to pay attention again
- 4
Opinion How anti-Israel rhetoric led to the killing of 2 in Washington, DC
In Case You Missed It
-
Opinion I want Palestinians to be free. But hearing the Capital Jewish Museum shooter’s chant terrifies me
-
Fast Forward Trump administration says Columbia University ‘continually failed to protect Jewish students’
-
Art Ben Shahn was a radical artist — why didn’t he want to be called a Jewish one?
-
Fast Forward Following DC shooting, NYC mayoral candidates address issues critical to Jewish community at a town hall
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
