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Talia Suskauer and Max Chernin in Parade (Joan Marcus)
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The lynching of Leo Frank coming to Northern California in ‘Parade’ revival

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss April 29, 2025May 2, 2025

As a self-described “musical theater nerd” growing up in Ohio, Max Chernin regularly browsed the CDs of soundtracks at his local Barnes & Noble. That’s where he first discovered “Parade,” […]

Maia, a young black performer, stands on stage at a microphone, as if she is competing in a spelling bee
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23-year-old actor made leap from camp talent show to local stages

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten November 17, 2023February 28, 2024
Ari'el Stachel rehearses his one-man show. (Photo/Muriel Steinke)
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Tony winner Ari’el Stachel comes home to Berkeley to premiere deeply personal one-man show

Alix Wall by Alix Wall June 9, 2023July 10, 2025
“The Scottsboro Boys" has a nearly all-Black cast and uses the structure of a minstrel show as a narrative device to expose the racism of white Southerners. (Photo/42nd Street Moon)
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‘Scottsboro Boys’: Kander and Ebb’s musical about racism and injustice playing in S.F.

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten May 5, 2023May 11, 2023
The musical "Parade" centers on the 1913 trial of Jewish factory manager Leo Frank. (Photo/Joan Marcus)
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In ‘Parade,’ a tragedy of antisemitism is timely as ever — and it wants you to notice

Rebecca Salzhauer by Rebecca Salzhauer and Forward March 23, 2023
From left: Karen Murphy (Sandra Day O’Connor), Stephanie Prentice (Sonia Sotomayor), and Lynda DiVito (Ruth Bader Ginsburg) in rehearsal for "Justice" at Marin Theatre Company. (Photo/Kevin Kopjak)
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‘JUSTICE’: Marin musical spotlights a singing Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Sarah Rosen by Sarah Rosen February 1, 2023February 6, 2023
Rose Oser is the writer behind "Shoshana in December."
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‘Shoshana in December’: New queer Hanukkah musical hits S.F. stage

Lillian Ilsley-Greene by Lillian Ilsley-Greene November 8, 2022
Billy Crystal performing a "Yiddish scat" routine during the 75th annual Tony Awards, June 12, 2022. (Screenshot)
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Billy Crystal’s ‘Yiddish scat’ and other Jewish moments at the Tonys

by Andrew Lapin and JTA June 13, 2022
Leo Ash Evens, center in tallit, plays Jewish immigrant Tateh and Sydney Walker Freeman, on his right, plays his daughter in a TheatreWorks Silicon Valley production of “Ragtime.” (Photo/Kevin Berne)
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‘Ragtime’ in Mountain View puts spotlight on Jewish characters (and actors)

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten June 2, 2022June 8, 2022
Zachary Noah Piser is taking over the role of Evan Hansen on Broadway full-time, becoming the first Asian American actor to do so. (Photo/JTA-Matthew Murphy)
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Broadway’s new ‘Evan Hansen’ is an Asian-American Jew with mohel parents

by Evelyn Frick and Hey Alma May 19, 2022May 23, 2022

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