Ivan Golyak—the Jewish director behind the heartbreaking Our Class, staged at the Brooklyn Academy of Music before a Manhattan transfer—is gearing up for the premiere of his next production, a contemporary take on William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice. Set […]
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
You’ve got until September 1 to catch The Sabbath Girl at 59E59 Theaters on the Upper East Side. The 90-minute musical tells the story of Angie Mastrantoni, an Italian-American art gallerist that lives on the Upper West Side and doesn’t
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Following a pretty successful run at the Brooklyn Academy of Music last winter, the heartbreaking Off-Broadway production Our Class is gearing up for a premiere in Manhattan at Classic Stage Company’s Lynn F. Angelson Theater at 136 East 13th Street
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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
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Joining a crowded roster of recent productions focusing on the Holocaust, Here There Are Blueberries is a new play about a real-life photo album that belonged to an SS officer that helped run Auschwitz. A finalist for this year’s Pulitzer
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First set up in New York in 2012 by Selfhelp Community Services, Witness Theater brings survivors and high school students together on a stage to dissect the happenings of the Holocaust, its repercussions and the importance of remembering. Next week
The Trial of Adolf Eichmann is a new play by director and producer David Serero that’s scheduled to premiere Off-Broadway at the Center for Jewish History at 15 West 16th Street by Fifth Avenue on May 21. The play, set
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If you fancy experimental takes on historical texts, then Exagoge, a new immersive opera play about the Passover seder, is for you. Premiering at avant-garde arts center Ellen Stewart Theatre at 66 East 4th Street by Cooper Square in the
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A new play about the attacks of October 7 in Israel hopes to highlight the atrocities that will forever define the country’s modern history by highlighting the accounts of those who lived through it all. Aptly dubbed October 7, the
