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.
Theater
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	  Culture For Israel, a predicament that would be familiar to the authors of Greek tragedyAs 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 yetThe ‘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 withoutStephen 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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	  Film & TV In William Friedkin’s most Jewish movie, a mouth-watering elegy to the New York deli‘The Night They Raided Minsky’s’ was the late director’s ode to Jewish food 
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	  Theater In stories told through puppets, haunting tales of generational traumaWith 'Paper Cut,' Israeli artist Yael Rasooly has found a way to heal herself — and her audiences 
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	  Theater Meet the queer Jewish theater nerd who just won the national Jewish Playwriting ContestAlexa Derman's edgy new script breaks norms for Jewish theater 
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	  Film & TV Elie Wiesel reviewed ‘Oppenheimer’ — and it made him shudderIn 1969 the author of ‘Night’ was shaken by a play about the father of the atom bomb 
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	  Film & TV As long as there are movies about Nazis, there will be movies about the art they looted
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	  Opinion Zohran Mamdani: The no-yes option
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	  Fast Forward These Jews backed Brad Lander in the primary. Are they taking his advice and voting Mamdani?
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