The Fox cult hit ‘Glee’ is about outcasts and Broadway—so naturally it offers a Jewish storyline
| 7:00 AM Oct 28, 2009
A high-school football player with a mohawk has a long, dark night of the soul. He dreams of an angelic visitation: a young woman in a nightgown, Star of David at her neck, wafts in through his window and gazes at him lovingly. As he awakes, he comes to the only reasonable conclusion: “Rachel was ...
Jane Goldberg shares an insider's perspective on a dance tradition
| 11:47 AM Dec 8, 2008
During the late 1960s, when Washington, D.C. native Jane Goldberg was a student of the historian and playwright Howard Zinn at Boston University, she thought she was on her way to becoming a socially conscious journalist who would help to realize Zinn’s pronouncement that, “If you can’t liberate the world, you must liberate the ground ...
Composer and lyricist Jason Robert Brown hasn't always had an easy time fitting in. Neither have his characters.
| 11:08 AM Feb 13, 2007
Left to right: Ryan Ogburn, Ricky Ashley, and Seth Zibalese singing about being a geek, in the world premiere of “13.” (Photo: Craig Schwartz)
“I gotta tell you, Rabbi, when you’re a geek, it’s the loneliest thing in the world,” sings Evan, the teenage protagonist of composer and lyricist Jason Robert Brown’s new musical, 13. Transplanted ...
After Fiddler and The Apple Tree, Harnick and Bock took on a different challenge
| 12:50 PM Dec 27, 2006
Six years after sweeping the Tonys with Fiddler on the Roof, the songwriting duo Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick brought to Broadway a family very different from Tevye’s: the Rothschilds. The lavish show, which premiered at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater in 1970 with a cast of 40 and a then-extravagant budget of $800,000, follows Mayer Rothschild ...