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In an odd casting choice that we are sure will lead to an initial boom in ticket sales, Nick Jonas has been tapped to take on the role of Jamie Wellerstein, a Jewish rising novelist, in the first-ever Broadway production of The Last Five Years, a musical written by Jason Robert Brown that first landed Nick Jonas to star in first-ever Broadway production of ‘The Last Five Years’

Ben Platt

Ben Platt will take over the Palace Theatre stage for an 18-show residency.

Prayer for the French Republic is now on Broadway

Although prominent Jews have been the subject of many Broadway shows throughout the years, recent months have seen a flourishing of productions dedicated to the Jewish experience as a whole. Last year’s revival of Parade, for example, a musical dramatization of the 1913 trial, imprisonment and eventual lynching of Jewish Leo Frank in Georgia, drew Three shows about the Jewish experience to catch on Broadway and beyond right now