For observant students in all-girls schools, exuberant theatrical productions are part of a long-standing, if often overlooked, tradition
With song titles like ‘Visiting Your Mother,’ the new musical breaks little new ground
Do you dig characters named Schmendrik and Schmegegge? Big fans of Bruce Vilanch? Like a little bit of Holocaust with your holiday cheer? Don’t miss this gem, playing for one night only.
The magical Broadway adaptation of the 2007 Israeli film sets aside politics in favor of humanity
His ‘Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson’ foresaw our populist political moment
‘Rags’ closed in 1986 after just four performances. But it’s coming to Connecticut’s Goodspeed Opera House.
Or: How to act in a foreign language you don’t speak, while simultaneously singing and dancing
The Jewish moms—including Golde from ‘Fiddler’ and Trina from ‘Falsettos’—who deserve our reverence. Also, call your mother already.
Spencer unironically cited a satirical Nazi song written by Kander’s uncle, the legendary John Kander
Tony Award-winning ‘Falsettos’ composer William Finn on bar mitzvahs, the AIDS crisis, and his very first show—in Hebrew
The crime of the century—the 20th century—feels unnervingly relevant today
Adaptation of the 1970 musical to premiere Off-Broadway in October
And—cautiously, tremulously—Rachel Shukert offers a dissent
Half a century after its release, the film’s historical inaccuracies glare
Revisiting the Founding Father’s Jewish day school days in the West Indies
New production of the Tony Award-winning musical premieres next spring
Peter Pan Live! was good, but NBC should really take us back to Anatevka
‘Harmony,’ opening in Atlanta next week, reimagines a famous Weimar-era song-and-dance troupe in major and minor keys
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