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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 616

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The Benhamou family of Paris conducts a Passover Seder in a scene from Broadway's "Prayer for the French Republic," which was nominated for three 2024 Tony Awards. (Jeremy Daniel via JTA)
May 2, 2024, 10:23 am
Two shows on antisemitism sweep 2024 Tony nominations
Revival of ‘Cabaret,’ about Weimar-era Berlin club, gets 9 nominations, while ‘Prayer for the French Republic,’ a 3-hour drama on antisemitism in France in 2016, snags 3
By Lisa Keys
Screen capture from video of New York Senator Chuck Schumer, right, making a cameo appearance in the Broadway show 'Gutenberg! The Musical!' November 22, 2023. (X. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
November 23, 2023, 8:37 am
US Sen. Chuck Schumer thrills audience with Broadway debut
New York senator makes appearance in ‘Gutenberg! The Musical!’ taking traditional cameo role of producer who finally agrees to fund show
By julia GERGELY
Sheldon Harnick accepts the special Tony Award for lifetime achievement in the Theatre at the Tony Awards at the Beacon Theatre on June 12, 2016, in New York (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
June 23, 2023, 9:14 pm
Sheldon Harnick, award-winning lyricist of ‘Fiddler on the Roof,’ dies aged 99
Also penned the words for ‘Fiorello!’ and ‘The Apple Tree’; actor Jackie Hoffman: ‘Like all brilliant persnickety lyricists he was a pain in the tuchus’
By Mark Kennedy
From 'Theodor,' the new original Hebrew opera about Theodor Herzl, premiering May 10, 2023 at The Israeli Opera (Courtesy Israeli Opera)
May 6, 2023, 10:32 am
A tale of two Herzls premieres in Tel Aviv in new opera ‘Theodor’
A Hebrew libretto for the ages asks audiences to consider what pushed the Jewish journalist and activist to found the modern Zionist movement
By Jessica Steinberg
Barry Manilow, Bruce Sussman and the cast of 'Harmony.' (Julieta Cervantes/via JTA)
April 14, 2022, 8:58 pm
Barry Manilow to miss NYC debut of his musical ‘Harmony’ after contracting COVID
Jewish singer says he waited 25 years for premiere of show about musical group in pre-WWII Germany: ‘This just might be the cruelest thing that has ever happened to me’
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Isaac Sutton, left and Eryn LeCroy will perform Broadway favorites at four performances on March 25-April 1, 2022. (courtesy, Tami Shaham/ Matthew Murphy)
March 21, 2022, 11:13 pm
Broadway comes to Israel with music from ‘Phantom of the Opera’
Local performer Isaac Sutton presents musical production of Broadway hits for local stages
By Jessica Steinberg
The Jewish creators of 'West Side Story,' Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents, on the opening night of the original Broadway musical, on September 26, 1957. (Ben Martin/Getty Images/ via JTA)
December 12, 2021, 2:53 am
Jews were behind the original ‘West Side Story’ and today’s remake. Should they be?
Originally titled ‘East Side Story,’ the musical was about warring Jews and Catholics and was altered to reflect a changing NYC. Now, critics ask: Is the classic truly ‘timeless’?
By Jordyn Haime
Ari'el Stachel accepts the award for featured actor in a musical for 'The Band's Visit' at the 72nd annual Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall, on Sunday, June 10, 2018, in New York. (Michael Zorn/Invision/AP)
October 21, 2021, 6:51 pm
Jewish actor bows out of role as Syrian migrant in Off-Broadway show
Ari’el Stachel expressed unease about character’s accent in ‘The Visitor,’ saying, ‘I couldn’t separate the experiences I was having in the world with what I was doing on stage’
By Emily Burack
The cast of 'Come From Away' at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre in New York City, March 12, 2017. (Walter McBride/WireImage/Getty Images via JTA)
September 11, 2021, 3:21 am
9/11 musical ‘Come From Away’ back on stage, screen with Jewish values at core
Play tells story of 7,000 passengers, including a rabbi, who were rerouted to small Canadian town amid the horror of the attacks, and the warm welcome they received from locals
By jacob gurvis
The glove of Israel Olympic baseball player Jake Roseberg sits on the field at Salt River Fields spring training facility, Wednesday, May 12, 2021, in Scottsdale, Arizona. Israel has qualified for the six-team baseball tournament at the Tokyo Olympic games which will be its first appearance at the Olympics in any team sport since 1976. (AP Photo/Matt York)
July 22, 2021, 2:38 pm
Daily Briefing July 22 – Will massive Team Israel net 7 medals at Tokyo 2020?
Amy Spiro explains who is going for the gold (or silver or bronze); Jordan Hoffman highlights a new Barry Sonnenfeld musical series and a book convinced that Superman was Jewish
By ToI Staff
Left: a portrait of Golda Meir in Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda market by Solomon Souza (Renee Ghert-Zand/TOI); Right: Dame Maureen Lipman (Jay Brooks)
February 11, 2021, 3:37 am
Golda Meir given posthumous encore in debut of newly rediscovered musical
Celebrated UK actress Maureen Lipman to sing ‘Next Year in Jerusalem,’ title song in a never-seen show about the female Israeli PM, for Jewish Music Institute’s online gala Feb. 11
By Anne Joseph
A scene from the London production of 'The Prince of Egypt' (Tristram Kenton/ via JTA)
April 17, 2020, 2:57 am
‘Prince of Egypt,’ ‘Wicked’ composer says inspired fans are his greatest reward
Discussing the recent stage adaptation of the Disney Exodus classic, his career and Jewish roots, Stephen Schwartz says he ‘didn’t really see it’ when Spielberg first tapped him
By Steve North
In this June 7, 2009, file photo, Jerry Herman accepts his Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theater from Angela Lansbury at the 63rd Annual Tony Awards in New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, FILE)
December 27, 2019, 1:41 pm
‘Mame,’ ‘Hello, Dolly!’ composer Jerry Herman dies at 88
The Jewish songwriter, who created 10 Broadway shows, won two Tony Awards, and two Grammys, championed the ‘simple, hummable show tune’ as his contemporaries wrote darker material
By Mark Kennedy
Rachel Chavkin poses in the press room with the award for best direction of a musical for "Hadestown" at the 73rd annual Tony Awards on June 9, 2019, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
June 10, 2019, 11:12 am
Jewish stars and directors dominate key categories at 2019 Tony Awards
‘Hadestown’ wins best musical and ‘The Ferryman’ takes best play award, as do their Jewish directors, Rachel Chavkin — only the 4th woman to win in that category — and Sam Mendes
By Agencies and ToI Staff
In this March 23, 1998 file photo, director Stanley Donen kisses the Oscar he received for Lifetime Achievement backstage at the 70th Academy Awards at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. (AP/Reed Saxon)
February 24, 2019, 2:39 am
Filmmaker Stanley Donen, who had Gene Kelly singin’ in the rain, dies at 94
King of Hollywood musicals, who used cinema growing up as escape from tensions of being one of only Jews around, remembered for bringing song and dance to silver screen
By Jake Coyle
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