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Jazz clarinetist Anat Cohen
Posted inMusic

After hunkering down in Brazil, jazz clarinetist Anat Cohen brings a taste of Rio to S.F.

Andrew Gilbert by Andrew Gilbert March 24, 2022March 24, 2022
Roger Guenveur Smith is the writer and star of "Otto Frank," playing at the Magic Theatre in San Francisco this month.
Posted inTheater

One-man play about Anne Frank’s father, Otto, comes to San Francisco

by Dan Pine March 10, 2022March 10, 2022
Viola Davis in the film adaptation of "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom." (Photo/Netflix)
Posted inTheater

‘Difficult literature is more important than ever’: Why we’re bringing Black plays to Jewish schools

by Kendell Pinkney & Lonnie Firestone and Forward February 23, 2022February 24, 2022
Eugen Engel in the 1930s at the composer's monument in the Tiergarten park in Berlin.
Posted inTheater

Rediscovered in a basement, Jewish composer’s prewar opera will now be staged in Germany

by Dan Pine February 7, 2022February 8, 2022
The company of "The Band's Visit" North American tour. (Photo/Matthew Murphy)
Posted inCultured

‘Band’s Visit,’ Fran Lebowitz and Nissim Black will go on — omicron permitting

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten January 3, 2022January 7, 2022
(Photo/Forward-Courtesy Viola Spolin Estate)
Posted inCulture

How one Jewish woman became the mother of improv comedy

by Joshua Flanders and Forward December 16, 2021December 16, 2021
Stephen Sondheim listening to music in the recording control room during the original cast recording of the Broadway musical "Into The Woods" in 1987. (Photo/JTA-Oliver Morris'Getty Images)
Posted inOpinion

How Stephen Sondheim helped me find my gay Jewish sensibility

Reb Irwin Keller by Rabbi Irwin Keller November 30, 2021December 1, 2021
Broadway legend Stephen Sondheim died Nov. 26. (Photo/Forward-Roy Rochlin-Getty Images)
Posted inTheater

The last and greatest gift Stephen Sondheim gave us

Talya Zax by Talya Zax and Forward November 29, 2021
A scene from the Yiddish version of "Waiting for Godot" staged at Sweden's Royal Dramatic Theater in Stockholm, Nov. 13, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Magnus Swärd-Judisk kultur i Sverige)
Posted inCulture

Sweden’s national theater stages its first ever Yiddish production

by Katarzyna Andersz and JTA November 22, 2021November 22, 2021
(Illustration/Forward-Nikki Casey)
Posted inUncategorized

I went 26 years without watching ‘Fiddler on the Roof.’ My first viewing was underwhelming — until it wasn’t

by Irene Katz Connelly and Forward November 4, 2021

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