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A Walk on the Moon

A new musical called A Walk on the Moon opened Off-Broadway this week. It’s set in a Catskills bungalow colony in 1969, following a blue-collar Brooklyn Jewish family through the summer the whole community crowded around the television for the moon landing. It’s playing at the Laura Pels Theatre on West 46th Street through August ‘A Walk on the Moon’ is a new Off-Broadway musical set in the 1969 Catskills

Gene & Gilda Off-Broadway play in Manhattan

The love story between late Jewish American actors Gene Wilder and Gilda Radner sits at the heart of Gene & Gilda, an Off-Broadway play now running at 59E59 Theaters on Manhattan’s Upper East Side through September 7. For the uninitiated: the couple first met on the set of Hanky Panky in 1981, quickly falling into This Off-Broadway play explores Jewish icon Gene Wilder’s love story with Gilda Radner