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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Theater A ‘dreadfully Jewish’ new play tells the story of a Grindr hookup gone awry
'As Time Goes By' explores modern gay male loneliness with humor, but is scant on Jewish themes
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Theater Tovah Feldshuh shares marriage advice — as she prepares for a play about divorce
Feldshuh plays an unhappy, Hasidic bride-to-be in 'My First Ex-Husband.' In real life, the Broadway legend's marriage has been going strong for 48 years and counting.
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Theater ‘A Knock on the Roof’ is a tragic, heart-pounding portrait of war in Gaza
A Palestinian woman lives through an IDF bombing in a harrowing new play
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Theater Can one of our most problematic musicals finally overcome its racist past?
A new version of 'Show Boat' reimagines Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein's Broadway classic
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Theater While Yiddish lives, Isaac Bashevis Singer’s ghost stories may flourish
The play ‘Bashevis’ Demons’ puts three of the Nobel winner’s scary tales on their feet
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Theater Leah Forster’s new off-Broadway show is anything but Orthodox
The ex-Haredi TikTok comedian on coming out and into her own in 'That's Yentatainment'
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Theater They created a musical about the 2011 Egyptian Revolution. Today’s activists are listening
"We Live in Cairo," now playing at the New York Theatre Workshop, takes on new resonance in light of pro-Palestinian protests
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Theater “How can neighbors turn on neighbors?” Descendants of a 1941 pogrom debate the answer
"Our Class," produced by the Classic Stage Company, tells the story of a true and timely Holocaust-era atrocity
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