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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Culture How a Jewish playwright’s internal Israel-Palestine debate became a Russian doll of Trojan horses
Itamar Moses says 'The Ally' is his most personal work to date
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Culture The press dismissed her as a ‘national trinket.’ Now this much-loved, sometimes mocked Jewish actress is telling her own story
One memoir wasn't enough for Miriam Margolyes, known for roles in Harry Potter (and about 150 other films and shows). Her latest is a mix of thoughtful reflection and scatalogical storytelling — with a bit of score-settling on the side
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Theater This Purim play features Henry Ford, Eastern Parkway tunnels and Marjorie Taylor Greene
Director David Herskovits talks ‘Remember This Trick,’ his new theater piece about antisemitism
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Culture From a Jewish home in Queens to ‘Sesame Street,’ Broadway, ‘Succession’ and ‘Job’
Fresh from completing four seasons as vice-chairman of Waystar Royco, Peter Friedman is starring in an Off-Broadway thriller
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Theater In play after play, artists keep asking the Jewish question to which there is no answer
From 'Diary of Anne Frank' to 'Leopoldstadt,' 'Our Class' and 'Prayer for the French Republic,' a struggle to explain the scourge of antisemitism
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Culture An heir to Broadway royalty returns to the Great White Way with an unlikely musical
Adam Guettel's adaptation of 'Days of Wine and Roses' is a story of love and addiction
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Theater She’d never played a Jewish character before. Then, a hit play about antisemitism came along.
Francis Benhamou heads to Broadway with Joshua Harmon's 'Prayer for the French Republic'
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Yiddish World The first new full-length American Yiddish drama in decades is set to take the stage
‘The Gospel According to Chaim,’ about a writer who translated the New Testament into Yiddish, will premiere in New York on Dec. 21
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