This is the Forward’s coverage of Jewish theater, the performing art done everywhere from small indie venues to Broadway, in Yiddish, English, and other languages.
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Culture Mazel to the power of Tov — my lifelong friendship with Richard Greenberg
My friend, the great playwright, was blessed with irony, wit and remarkable kindness
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Theater Can a kinky new Yiddish musical resurrect a lost art — and one man who got spanked to death?
Mikhl Yashinsky's zesty 'Feast of the Seven Sinners' marries tradition and taboo, with R-rated consequences
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Fast Forward Play about Roald Dahl’s antisemitism wins 3 Olivier Awards
Jewish actor Elliot Levey won best actor in a supporting role
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Theater The ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ revival has us wondering — where are all the Jewish Shelley Levenes?
Bob Odenkirk plays the Jewish character in David Mamet’s drama on Broadway
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Yiddish World Parisian theater stages Isaac Bashevis Singer’s ‘Golem’ in Yiddish and French
A diverse group of French, Israeli and Palestinian actors perform in Yiddish in Amos Gitai's contemporary staging
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Culture How one man discovered his Jewish identity through sweating
Nick Cassenbaum's play 'Bubble Schmeisis' explores the culture of London's schvitz
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Theater Abby Stein shows us the Hasidic Williamsburg she left behind
Stein’s memoir about growing up transgender in the Hasidic community, 'Becoming Eve,' is being adapted into a new play
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Theater She was a teenage runaway, German rock star and Berlin leading lady — now she’s playing Leonard Bernstein
Helen Schneider will embody the maestro in the Off-Broadway play ‘Last Call’
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Fast Forward Two congregations, two opinions as Torahs hit the floor at separate NYC services
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Fast Forward At the Jewish Museum of Chicago, anti-Zionist Jewish artists explore identity and dissent
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