This fall, the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene brings Hannah Senesh’s remarkable story to the stage in a powerful one-woman play. Senesh, a young Jewish woman who escaped Hungary in 1939 for British Mandate Palestine, joined the Haganah—the main Jewish paramilitary organization in the territory from 1920 to 1948—and later volunteered for a daring Special Operations … This one-woman Off-Broadway play tells the story of a Jewish paratrooper who fought the Nazis

Known as one of the greatest mimes of all time, Marcel Marceau’s lesser-known heroism will take center stage in Marcel on the Train, a new Off-Broadway play set to make its world premiere at the Lynn F. Angelson Theater (136 East 13th Street) in February 2026. The production stars Ethan Slater—who also co-wrote the story … This new Off-Broadway play centers on famed mime Marcel Marceau’s mission to rescue Jewish children during the Holocaust

Although William Shakespeare wrote The Merchant of Venice in the late 1500s, experts still debate whether the play, about a merchant named Antonio who defaults on a loan he takes out on behalf of his friend Bassanio through Jewish moneylender Shylock, is replete with antisemitic tropes or simply explores the very concept of antisemitism through … ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ star T.R. Knight to star in Off-Broadway production of ‘The Merchant of Venice’