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Culture Two very Jewish stories, separated by more than 3,000 years
Hal Linden and Bernie Kopell star in Ed. Weinberger's 'Two Jews Talking'
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Theater Julie Benko is getting her big break in ‘Funny Girl’ — and she’s not afraid of comparisons
Hubbub surrounded Beanie Feldstein’s departure and Lea Michele’s arrival. But Benko is the real winner, starring for all of August.
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The Schmooze Why is Beanie Feldstein leaving ‘Funny Girl’ early — and why is Lea Michele taking her place?
Feldstein posted a cryptic statement to Instagram explaining that the producers ‘decided to take the show in a different direction.’
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Culture What happens if a Black woman plays Anne Frank?
In a new short film, a white Jew and a Black gentile go head-to-head for the role of the Jewish teenager, opening questions of race and casting.
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Culture Can an all-Mormon cast pull off ‘Fiddler on the Roof’? We traveled to Utah to find out.
It’s a Saturday morning in mid-November and Peter Morgan is pacing the scuffed wooden floors of the rehearsal room. He’s wearing a scraggly beard and a black shirt reading “My favorite chord is Gsus” as he struggles with Yiddish dialect for his lead role of Tevye in Brigham Young University’s production of “Fiddler on the…
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Culture Never have I ever missed Stephen Sondheim more than I do today
The night that Stephen Sondheim died, I went out for drinks with a new friend. We played “Never Have I Ever,” a game I hadn’t even thought of since college, and I very slowly nursed a cocktail called, romantically, the Hundred-Year-Old Dream. We stayed out for hours. Sondheim was a master of human connection. He…
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Culture What would Otto Frank tell Anne about Charlottesville? A new play tells us.
Roger Guenveur Smith had been meaning to play Anne Frank’s father for some time – but first he had to embody someone quite different. “I was finally ready to really dive into the archives, and lo and behold, we lost Rodney King,” said Smith, who performed a one-man show as King, the Black victim of…
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Culture Can a Christian theater company put on a good Purim spiel?
In the Purim story, a Jew hides in plain sight among gentiles until the time is right for a big, momentous reveal that, in a miracle of history, saves our people. In late December, when I went to see “Queen Esther,” a big-budget biblical spectacle that puts an evangelical spin on the Megillah, I was…
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נאָכן אַרבעטן חדשים לאַנג צו פֿאַרשטאַרקן די מוסקלען האָט דער מחבר סוף־כּל־סוף געקראָגן די געלעגנהייט צו קריגן דעם כּיבוד
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Culture Two very Jewish stories, separated by more than 3,000 years
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