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From 'The Eichmann Trial,' a play at Jerusalem's Beit HaAm, on April 27, 2026. (Courtesy)
May 4, 2026, 5:26 am
New drama ‘The Eichmann Trial’ at Jerusalem’s Beit Ha’am takes same stage as actual trial
Through May 4, the portrayal of the 1961 hearing offers a captivating glimpse at the human psyche, along with a history of budding relations between Germany and the Jewish state
By Jessica Steinberg
The Instagram account of 'Slam Frank' has stoked people's confusion. (Poster at center, courtesy; screenshots via Instagram via JTA)
August 22, 2025, 1:01 am
Musical with Anne Frank as pansexual Latinx has audiences wondering, ‘Is this for real?’
Social media users can’t tell if Off-Broadway show ‘Slam Frank’ is just an elaborate prank designed to pillory the left and rage-bait the right – and its creators are stoking the confusion
By Joseph Strauss
"Love Music Now" by singer Dikla with an accompanying dance by Yasmin Godder will be performed September 2024 at the Israel Festival (Courtesy Tamar Lem)
July 31, 2024, 9:16 am
Negev artists to take part in Israel Festival, with performances in Jerusalem and south
This year’s annual cultural event is more reflection than celebration, using art in a process of healing and recovery from tragedies of October 7
By Jessica Steinberg
Scene from 'The Last Cyclist' production at La MaMa in New York, August 2017. (Alexander Jorgensen)
August 16, 2022, 4:03 pm
A lost comedy cabaret from the Terezin ghetto is reconstructed and finally staged
Originally banned by the camp’s Jewish leadership after dress rehearsal due to its boldness, Nazi victim Karel Švenk’s ‘The Last Cyclist’ is now getting its turn in the limelight
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Illustrative: An Israeli couple wait for a play to begin in Tel Aviv on June 5, 2013. (Zuzana Janku/Flash 90)
February 2, 2021, 12:43 pm
Tel Aviv and theaters fund incubators to set stage for new class of dramatists
City and 4 repertory theaters split cost of NIS 640,000 program to develop works by local playwrights under 40, with hopes to bring them to the stage when doors can reopen
By Jessica Steinberg
Morad Hassan (left) and Yoel Rozenkier play two men meeting on a dating app in 'Borders,' a play that went virtual during the coronavirus (Courtesy Nimrod Danishman)
October 14, 2020, 12:09 pm
A play about gay men on Grindr goes virtual during COVID-19
‘Borders,’ Nimrod Danishman’s production about an Israeli-Lebanese couple, is adapted for the phone app Telegram this week
By Jessica Steinberg
Ken Ludwig, at Studio 54 in New York City, April 29, 2019. (Walter McBride/ WireImage/ Getty Images/ via JTA)
December 5, 2019, 2:59 am
The king of farce’s new play is inspired by his parents’ love letters
‘Dear Jack, Dear Louise,’ by Broadway legend Ken Ludwig, weaves a bi-coastal correspondence at the height of WWII into a full-fledged romance tale — and a humorous one
By Curt Schleier
Jesse Freedman's "The Talmud" draws inspiration from the Jewish canon and Chinese martial art films. (Courtesy of Freedman via JTA)
September 5, 2019, 1:13 am
There’s a lot you can learn about studying Talmud from kung fu movies
A new play explores the similarities in the relationships between teacher and student, and the rhythms and structure of the two disciplines
By Josefin Dolsten
In this April 8, 2004 file photo, playwright Mark Medoff, left, and actress Phyllis Frelich pose for a photo in New York. Medoff, who wrote the award-winning play "Children of a Lesser God," has died in New Mexico at age 79. Medoff's daughter, Jessica Bunchman, confirmed that he died Tuesday, April 23, 2019, in a Las Cruces hospice, surrounded by family. Frelich won a Tony in 1980 for her Broadway portrayal of Sarah Norman, the deaf woman at the heart of the play. (AP Photo/Justin Walters)
April 25, 2019, 6:02 am
‘Children of a Lesser God’ writer Mark Medoff dies at 79
Playwright won Tony and Olivier awards; screen adaptation of his play earned an Oscar nomination
By Mark Kennedy
Poster for 'Rosenbaum's Rescue,' a new play by Alexander Bodin Saphir. (Courtesy)
January 4, 2019, 11:12 am
Play depicts new details of alleged Nazi self-sabotage in rescue of Danish Jews
Opening in London next week, playwright Alexander Bodin Saphir’s ‘Rosenbaum’s Rescue’ dramatizes the miraculous overnight escape of Jewish Danes to Sweden
By Anne Joseph
Robert Neumark-Jones as Jesse and Asha Reid as Alex in Stephen Laughton's 'One Jewish Boy.' (Courtesy)
December 21, 2018, 1:59 pm
How a fringe anti-racism play has upset London’s streets and exploded Twitter
After being called out as a Jew when he blundered into a pro-Palestinian protest, playwright Stephen Laughton’s attempts to define his own tumultuous identity in ‘One Jewish Boy’
By Jenni Frazer
A scene from 'The Waverly Gallery' shows, from left, Joan Allen, Elaine May, Lucas Hedges and David Cromer. (Brigitte Lacombe/via JTA)
November 24, 2018, 9:56 pm
‘Manchester by the Sea’ director’s new play deals with tragedy in Jewish family
Kenneth Lonergan’s recently opened ‘The Waverly Gallery,’ running through January 17, features a tear-jerking performance from Elaine May as an aging matriarch that may grab a Tony
By Curt Schleier
Rebecca Miller filming her father. (Inge Morath/The Igne Morath Foundation/Magnum Photos/HBO/via JTA)
March 14, 2018, 6:12 pm
Arthur Miller’s daughter made an intimate HBO documentary about her father
Premiering March 19, Rebecca Miller’s depiction of the hardened playwright’s story fills the gaps between his public and private lives
By Curt Schleier
This 1979 image shows Bernard Pomerance, playwright of "The Elephant Man," in New York. (David LeShay via AP)
August 30, 2017, 8:27 am
‘The Elephant Man’ playwright Bernard Pomerance dies at 76
Writer of Tony Award-winning show based on life of extremely disfigured but indomitable John Merrick dies of complications from cancer
By Mark Kennedy
French writer Yasmina Reza performing in the play 'Dans la luge d'Arthur Schopenhauer' at the Ouvert Theater in Paris, September 22, 2006. (AFP/Fred Dufour)
September 22, 2016, 11:57 pm
The tears and laughter of Yasmina Reza’s lost Babylon
Latest novel from French Jewish playwright about dispute over free-range chicken in running for top literary prize
By Fiachra GIBBONS
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