(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....
(JTA) — Stephen Sondheim, the Jewish lyricist and composer who redefined the American musical through a monumental canon of influential and innovative theatrical works, has died at 91. He died suddenly Friday after enjoying a Thanksgiving dinner...
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“)
The macabre characters created by cartoonist Charles Addams were anything but Jewish, which is why it may be interesting to musical theatre lovers that the creative team behind “The Addams Family” is...
(JTA) — Thanks to safety measures such as vaccination and mask requirements, Broadway shows are playing again after a shutdown that lasted a year and a half, the longest in Broadway history.
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“)
Because she was played on screen by Barbra Streisand and because her last name appears to have Jewish origins, the brazen character of Dolly Levi has been mistakenly taken by some as...
(JTA) — When U.S. airspace closed as a result of the attacks on the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, 38 planes were grounded in Gander, Newfoundland, stranding nearly 7,000 international travelers “on the northeast tip...
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“)
For its second production of “Freedom,” the National World War II Museum elected to bring in one of the people responsible for its development, the only non-Jew within its group of four...
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out”)
It’s taken two years for the darkened stage of Tulane University’s Dixon Hall to be witness to the frenetic work of dozens of dedicated lovers of musical theatre, for the spotlights to...
