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 A Jewish comedian’s new special is about his partner’s death from COVID. It’s hilarious
'Sugar Daddy', the latest from Sam Morrison, is a raucous, raunchy and deeply moving portrayal of grief, sex and love
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Culture How a would-be revolution led to an exodus of Polish Jews
History cuts a love story short in a film about the student uprisings that rocked Poland in 1968
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Culture Why the decision to shut down a Jewish play in Florida borders on obscenity
The censorship of Paula Vogel's 'Indecent' in Jacksonville is a new and troubling development in the so-called culture wars
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Theater Michael Feingold was a critic with the rarest of qualities — charity, sensitivity and a gift for playwriting
The onetime critic for the Village Voice will be remembered for a half-century of service to the theater
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Culture In this Ephron-esque romcom, Sally meets Harry — then gets divorced two years later
"The Gett," a play by Liba Vaynberg running at Rattlestick Theater, chronicles a Jewish divorce but never quite decides what it wants to say
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Theater Once upon a time, there was an Adolf Hitler Street on Long Island
Bess Wohl's 'Camp Siegfried' revisits a dark period in American history
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Theater Why Arthur Miller paid a price for greatness
In John Lahr’s new biography, the ‘Death of a Salesman’ writer’s inner life explains the plays we know
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Culture In London, an antisemitism scandal has sparked a play about antisemitism. Is it helping?
The Royal Court Theatre’s response to a very public drama? Even more drama.
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