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 As ‘Death of a Salesman’ returns to Broadway, the question remains — how Jewish is Willy Loman?
Arthur Miller's doomed and delusional protagonist has been seen as both a crypto-Jew and an American everyman
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Theater He may have been the world’s most famous mime, but in this play, he won’t shut up
Ethan Slater misses the mark with 'Marcel on the Train,' an uneven play about Marcel Marceau’s Holocaust rescues
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Yiddish World Confronting art and love as the Nazis close in
In the play ‘Beneath the Ice of the Vistula,’ a Jewish composer refuses to flee before finishing his master work.
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Theater Could this be the most Jewish musical that never admits its own Jewishness?
A new production of 'Oliver!' featuring Simon Lipkin as Fagin brings back the sounds and rhythms of a Friday night dinner table
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Culture A new organization aims to combat antisemitism and spread Jewish joy in New York’s theater industry
Many members say troubling rhetoric thrives backstage on Broadway
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Culture What happens when you’re the only Jewish family in Oklahoma?
'Oklahoma Samovar,’ from Alice Eve Cohen, follows a Jewish family over generations as they try to find their place in America
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Theater The Jewish playwright who inspired Tom Stoppard to write his Holocaust history
Arthur Schnitzler’s Austria was a major influence on ‘Leopoldstadt’
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Culture The gift Tom Stoppard gave to me — and to all who adore him
The great British Jewish playwright asked profound questions about what it means to live a significant life
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