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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 by Third Avenue in the East Village. The 2009 play by Polish playwright Tadeusz Slobodzianek … Off-Broadway hit ‘Our Class’ transfers to Manhattan next month

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’

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 Prize in drama (the award eventually went to Primary Trust by Eboni Booth), the 90-minute … This 90-minute play about a chilling album of WWII photos was a Pulitzer Prize finalist

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 on both May 8 and 9, the group puts on In Person at the Marlene … Holocaust survivors and high school students take the stage at the JCC Manhattan 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 in Jerusalem in 1961, focuses on the real-life trial of Eichmann, a German-Austrian official of … A new play about Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann will premiere in NYC next month

Exagoge immersive play

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 East Village on April 26 (the fifth night of Passover!), the 90-minute show will run … An immersive opera play about the Passover seder is premiering in NYC this month

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 show, written by Phelim McAleer, is a verbatim play—that is, a staged documentary of sorts, … A new unfiltered play about October 7 featuring survivors’ testimonies will open in NYC this May

The Ally

Watching The Ally, Itamar Moses’ play currently staged at the Public Theater, is an enraging experience. The show stars Josh Radnor as Asaf Sternheim, a Jewish, liberal and self-defined atheist professor teaching at a non-defined university, who is asked by a former Black student, Baron Prince (Elijah Jones), to sign a manifesto seeking justice for … Poignant and timely play ‘The Ally’ will leave you infuriated

Pharaoh new play

Pharaoh, a new play by Misha Shulman set to debut at the Theater for the New City at 155 First Avenue by 10th Street in the East Village on March 15 through March 31, is an interesting addition to the city’s cultural lineup for a variety of reasons. On the one hand, it focuses on … A new play tells the story of Exodus from the perspective of the king of Egypt

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