(JTA) — Award-winning actor and singer Billy Porter sparked controversy while promoting his new lead role in the revival of “Cabaret” on Broadway when he stated that “Black people have replaced the Jews.”
(JTA) — President Donald Trump counts “Fiddler on the Roof,” the musical about a Jewish family seeking to maintain their traditions in an Old World shtetl plagued by antisemitism, as one of his favorite Broadway shows, he...
(JTA) — Demonstrators holding flags with Nazi swastikas targeted two rural Michigan towns over the weekend, including the site of a community theater production of “The Diary of Anne Frank.”
They also reportedly chanted a pro-Donald Trump...
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“)
With the rapid rise of blatant antisemitism in the world today, there is probably no better time than now for the presentation of Moisés Kaufman and Amanda Gronich’s Here There Are Blueberries....
(New York Jewish Week via JTA) — “I’ve always wanted to write about the Holocaust,” the playwright Moisés Kaufman, son of a Romanian Holocaust survivor, told me this week. “But it’s the one thing in history that...
For the third time in several years, Congregation Gates of Prayer cantorial soloist Jordan Lawrence is playing a singing nun on stage and it’s a “habit” her synagogue fully supports.
(New York Jewish Week via JTA) — At a time of rising antisemitism, two shows about Jews caught up in a dangerous climate of hate received multiple nominations yesterday for the 2024 Tony Awards.
(New York Jewish Week via JTA) — The theater charity group Broadway Cares donated $400,000 to four Israeli aid organizations after coming under fire for its contributions to Gaza relief.
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“)
With a subtitle – “The Carole King Musical” – it’s easy to conceive that “Beautiful” is a musical that only concerns the life of legendary Jewish songwriter Carole King and ancillary figures...
