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      Viola Davis in the film adaptation of "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom." (Photo/Netflix)

      Opinion

      'Difficult literature': Why we’re bringing Black plays to Jewish schools

      McMinn County in Tennessee recently banned their middle schools from reading Art Spiegelman’s graphic novel “Maus,” a work that for decades has powerfully…
      By Kendell Pinkney & Lonnie Firestone, Forward Feb 23, 2022
      Eugen Engel in the 1930s at the composer's monument in the Tiergarten park in Berlin.

      Theater

      Rediscovered in a basement, his prewar opera heads to Germany

      Later this month, Jan Agee will leave her Davis home, get on a plane, and fly 6,000 miles to Germany just to attend an opera. And she isn’t even an opera…
      By Dan Pine Feb 7, 2022
      The company of "The Band's Visit" North American tour. (Photo/Matthew Murphy)

      Cultured

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

      Let’s start 2022 off with some good culture news: Most venues that were closed this time last year are now open, and big shows and acts are coming to town…
      By Andrew Esensten Jan 3, 2022
      (Photo/Forward-Courtesy Viola Spolin Estate)

      Comedy

      How one Jewish woman became the mother of improv comedy

      This piece first appeared at the Forward. Jews have been at the forefront of North American comedy since its inception. Folks like Eugene Levy, Harold…
      By Joshua Flanders, Forward Dec 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)

      First Person

      How Stephen Sondheim helped me find my gay Jewish sensibility

      If I had to identify my first self-actualizing gay experience, it would be back in high school in the mid-1970s. A friend and I nervously got in the car…
      By Rabbi Irwin Keller Nov 30, 2021
      Broadway legend Stephen Sondheim died Nov. 26. (Photo/Forward-Roy Rochlin-Getty Images)

      Theater

      The last and greatest gift Stephen Sondheim gave us

      This piece first appeared at the Forward and is reprinted with permission. The thing about Stephen Sondheim is that there is almost nothing meaningful to…
      By Talya Zax, Forward Nov 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)

      Theater

      Sweden’s national theater stages its first ever Yiddish production

      Actors in a recent production of “Waiting for Godot” at the Royal Dramatic Theater in Stockholm performed neither in the classic play’s original English…
      By Katarzyna Andersz, JTA Nov 22, 2021
      (Illustration/Forward-Nikki Casey)

      First Person

      My first viewing of ‘Fiddler’ was underwhelming — until it wasn’t

      When the Forward’s culture desk met earlier this year to plan coverage for the 50th anniversary of the 1971 movie musical “Fiddler on the Roof,” I had to…
      By Irene Katz Connelly, Forward Nov 4, 2021
      Actor Kathryn Hahn as Rabbi Raquel Fein on “Transparent.” (Photo/Amazon Prime)

      Opinion

      No, Jewish characters do not need to be played by Jewish actors

      I was never a fan of the late Joan Rivers. Nevertheless, I would have looked forward to the television series based on her life. Except, it is not…
      By Rabbi Jeffrey K. Salkin, RNS Nov 4, 2021
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