(New York Jewish Week via JTA) — “Funny Girl” is so deeply ingrained in Beanie Feldstein’s life that she doesn’t even remember the first time she watched the movie. “From my developmental psychology classes in college, I think I remember...
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“)
Of all the ironies, after two years of preparing to open the very first revival of Neil Simon’s “Plaza Suite” on Broadway, Sarah Jessica Parker and her husband Matthew Broderick had a...
With the opening of “Harmony: A New Musical” on Wednesday night, April 13, a 25-year journey for composer Barry Manilow was finally completed. Manilow, the 78-year-old successful singer whose string of hits established...
(New York Jewish Week via JTA) — Singer Barry Manilow tested positive for COVID-19, preventing him from attending the New York premier of his musical “Harmony.”
The show, about a real-life musical group popular in Germany in the years before...
(New York Jewish Week via JTA) — Barry Manilow could fill a stage just by showing up with a piano, and he has: Starting in 1977, his stints on Broadway have nearly always sold out. With 13...
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Crittic (“Steppin’ Out“)
Tovah Feldshuh had described herself as a “transformational” actor. Among her previous outings in one-woman shows were Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir (“Golda’s Balcony“) and hotel magnate Leona Helmsley in a play...
(JTA) — In recent years, Yiddish theater has enjoyed a remarkable resurgence, with Yiddish-language performances wowing audiences in New York, online and, last month, Stockholm.
But perhaps its biggest audience yet came on Thursday night, when “Jeopardy!”...
With innumerable acting awards and plaudits to her credit, Tovah Feldshuh has continued to ply her acting craft during the current pandemic, a time when even she admits thriving in theatre has been...
(JTA) — When Seattle-based playwright and theater director Lauren Goldman Marshall first staged her original musical about the Israel-Palestinian conflict in 1991, she had recently embarked on a journey of self-discovery prompted by the First Intifada....
