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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Opinion ‘This is not about Hitler’ — Micaela Diamond on the Broadway revival of ‘Parade’
The Jewish musical theater star talks playing the role she's always dreamed of
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Opinion Joshua Malina is a proud Jew. In his latest role, he plays his polar opposite
Thirty-four years after his Broadway debut, the Jewish actor takes the lead in Sir Tom Stoppard’s 'Leopoldstadt'
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Culture ‘Always making demented performances’: Meet the professional clown with a show about the Holocaust
Alexandra Tatarsky enters the hellscape of the Jewish mind
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Culture Remembering Topol, the people’s Tevye
Chaim Topol, who starred in the film adaptation of Fiddler on the Roof, died Thursday at 87
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Theater ‘A kind of ritual’: Jessica Hecht on hosting a theatrical shiva
Hecht plays Sarah Ruhl in 'Letters from Max,' adapted from the playwright’s letters with Max Ritvo, a student who died at 25
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Theater What ever became of the cat in ‘The Diary of Anne Frank’?
The untold and (mostly) happy story of Mouschi, who lived in the secret annex with the Franks and Van Daans on Broadway and throughout America
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Culture ‘She felt so real to me’: Four young actors on how playing Anne Frank changed their lives
In Minnesota, Washington, Massachusetts and North Carolina, one story continues to exert a pull over the people who tell it
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Theater Playing a 1960s beatnik, Oscar Isaac finds out that being Jewish doesn’t make you a social justice authority
Lorraine Hansberry’s ‘The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window,’ an overlooked play about idealism and apathy, gets a New York revival
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