Theater
One of America’s greatest living playwrights is also one of the more Jewishly compelling writers of our time, even if he gets left out of the bar-mitzvah anthologies.
Last month saw the first-ever production of Herzl’s little-known play The New Ghetto in the country he brought into being. The performance was touched with the sublime.
The Lehman Trilogy repackages old anti-Semitism for a new audience.
“The most stirring staging of the play I have ever seen.”
Are there more important things than being a Jew?
Did John Simon’s origins inform his idiosyncratic opinions?
Where the Three Stooges, Sandy Koufax, and Ed Sullivan all prayed.
A new play about Helene Mayer.
More barukh Hashems than New York has skyscrapers.
The Rachel Corrie revival.
Artists against art.
Misreading God of Vengeance.
Paul de Man, the man.
Successful negotiations aren’t the same as peace.