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Theater In Germany, they were superstars — and then the Nazis came to power
'Harmony,' Barry Manilow's musical about the Comedian Harmonists, is a sometimes-labored labor of love
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Culture The overlooked musical that prepared Barbra Streisand for ‘Funny Girl’
Streisand's Broadway debut as a frumpy secretary in 'I Can Get It For You Wholesale' set the stage (literally) for her breakout performance as Fanny Brice
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Culture I played Fanny Brice on Broadway. Here’s what she taught me about being an actor
When Beanie Feldstein departed the Broadway revival of 'Funny Girl' early, an understudy got an unexpected moment in the spotlight
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Books How Barbra Streisand’s interior design manifesto inspired an unlikely hit play
Over a decade before publishing her first memoir, the movie star made her authorial debut with a coffee table tome detailing her sometimes questionable, always ostentatious taste in home decor
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Culture For Israel, a predicament that would be familiar to the authors of Greek tragedy
As with Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, Israel confronts a story where no happy ending is possible
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Culture Rachel Bloom’s new show is all about death — and it may be her most Jewish one yet
The ‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’ creator is back with a musical comedy about looming mortality and existential dread
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Culture ‘Isn’t it rich’ — Sondheim, Buñuel, and the discreet charm of the bourgeois audience they couldn’t live without
Stephen Sondheim's final musical, 'Here We Are,' tackles two of the great surrealist films of the 20th century
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Culture One of the most important Jewish artists of his generation was born 100 years ago — can you recognize him?
He was a World War II hero and the consummate practitioner of his art, but out of costume, he may not look familiar
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Yiddish איך פֿאָר קיין צורוגאַ, יאַפּאַן, וווּ מײַן טאַטע האָט זיך געראַטעוועט פֿון די נאַציסI travel to Tsuruga, Japan, where my father was saved from the Nazis
אַן אָרטיקער מוזיי גיט איבער רירנדיקע זכרונות פֿון יענע יאָרן מצד די ייִדישע פּליטים און יאַפּאַנישע אײַנוווינער
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