Born 100 years ago today, Alan Jay Lerner of Lerner and Loewe wrote classic American musicals like ‘Camelot’ and ‘My Fair Lady,‘ whose Jewish themes are not always obvious
With song titles like ‘Visiting Your Mother,’ the new musical breaks little new ground
Three young Canadian artists with a political bent look at Jewish refugee history in ‘Old Stock’
In Broadway’s ‘War Paint,’ a new musical about rival cosmetics moguls, Christine Ebersole and Patti LuPone shine, as do the costumes, but its greatness ends there
On ‘Girls,’ Elijah gets an unexpected visitor and Hannah confronts Paul-Louis
Mike Stoller, of the powerhouse songwriting duo Leiber and Stoller, talks about cultural appropriation, writing for Elvis, and the idea of the ‘soundtrack of our lives’
Sondheim and playwright David Ives are adapting films by Luis Buñuel for the stage
An off-Broadway production of the musical about former New York Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia begins in September at the East 13th Street Theater
Forget Hamilton and its can-do spirit. These productions are more appropriate for the age of Trump.
Even for Barbra fans that’s good news, because the musical needs a live audience to work its magic
A review of Rothschild & Sons, an off-Broadway revision of Harnick, Bock and Yellen’s musical The Rothschilds
New production of the Tony Award-winning musical premieres next spring
A 28-year-old Broadway actress takes on an unexpected new project
With Nice Work and Porgy and Bess up for 20 Tonys, the Gershwins and Stephen Sondheim talk to Tablet
Schindler’s List is astoundingly stupid, Inglourious Basterds is cartoonishly potent, and more in our list of the greatest Jewish movies of all time
Songs from Tablet Magazine’s ‘Gypsy’-inspired Passover musical
Questions, answers, entrances, and exoduses—our complete Passover coverage
After 42 years, ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ star Topol is still stuck in Anatevka
