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Can an all-Mormon cast pull off ‘Fiddler on the Roof’? I went to Utah to find out.

Mira Fox by Mira Fox and Forward April 12, 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
A program cover from a 1920s Yiddish Press Ball in Warsaw is shown before and after conservation treatment. It and thousands of other programs and posters can be seen as part of the Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections project. (Photo/Courtesy YIVO)
Posted inHistory

From the reverent to the raunchy, YIVO’s vast archives of Yiddish life are reunited online

by Andrew Silow-Carroll and JTA January 11, 2022January 11, 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
Anneke von der Lippe as Alex (left) and Amos Tamam as Arik in "The Girl From Oslo." (Photo/Netflix)
Posted inTV

Searching for context after binging Israeli-Norwegian hostage drama ‘The Girl From Oslo’

Esther D. Kustanowitz by Esther D. Kustanowitz December 29, 2021January 2, 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

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