In ‘Leopoldstadt,’ Tom Stoppard tackles the Holocaust, intermarriage, Zionism — and his own Jewishness
Speaking on the phone from an empty balcony in the Longacre Theater in New York, several hours before a preview performance of his latest...
Ari Roth’s third act
Theater producer and playwright Ari Roth last made headlines in the fall of 2020, when he resigned from Mosaic Theater Company, which he founded...
Theater J’s ‘Old Stock’ takes the immigrant saga to Canada
We Jews are wanderers. It’s both an intergenerational curse and survival mechanism. That trunks, satchels and suitcases have always been at the ready, for...
Old jokes for old Jews
Review
Brad Zimmerman peaked, it seems, as a preteen little leaguer. When he hit the ball out of the park, his dad shouted from the...
Voices of the Crown Heights riots are still relevant 30 years on in Theater...
Review
It’s been more than three decades since the predominantly Chasidic Crown Heights neighborhood in Brooklyn, N.Y., erupted in a riot, following the tragic death...
Radiant poetry pulls together world premiere at Olney Theater
Our ur-Jewish stories, those that we have been reading, interpreting and re-telling for millennia — inform and shape us. And these ancient stories of...
Is it time to retire ‘The Merchant of Venice’?
When William Shakespeare penned “The Merchant of Venice” between 1596 and 1599, he considered it a comedy; couples Portia and Lorenzo and Nerissa and...
Are some things too sensitive to dramatize?
By Jarrad Saffern
PHILADELPHIA —Word that a Los Angeles playhouse is turning a South Jersey tragedy — Rabbi Fred Neulander having his wife Carol Neulander...
Who owns Anne Frank?
More than 75 years after Anne Frank, the best-known victim of Hitler’s Final Solution, perished at Bergen-Belsen, the famed teenage diarist’s afterlife is, for...
Storytellers take D.C audience to confrontations with injustice
With just binders in their hands, a group of storytellers took viewers from their device screens to places like the Argentine Dirty War and...
