How the Shows Went On, and How They May Again
2 new documentaries look at Broadway as it was, while a third gives us a glimpse of our possible post-COVID future.
Stories by Simi Horwitz
Theatre’s Front Lines
For house managers and theatre services directors, the work is invisible but rewarding.
Isabelle Huppert, a Person Onstage
Known for her roles as knotty, contradictory women, the French icon plunges into her first American production with ‘The Mother’ at the Atlantic.
The Refuge of the Stage
What roles can theatre play in the global refugee crisis? Healing, representation—and diversion.
Enter Stage Right
Conservative theatremakers, some emboldened by Trump’s election, look for inroads onstage.
But Is ‘God of Vengeance’ Good for the Jews?
Sholem Asch’s groundbreaking 1906 play, the subject of the Broadway-bound ‘Indecent,’ gets a new Yiddish revival.
Donna Kaz: Behind the Mask, a Survivor and a Storyteller
In a new memoir, the Guerrilla Girl recounts a life as an art provocateur and a reluctant feminist haunted by abuse.
Willy Loman as a Wandering Jew in New Yiddish Rep’s ‘Death of a Salesman’
Rendered in Yiddish, Arthur Miller’s American icon and his conflicted family may have a more specific cultural identity than usual, but the play’s universality still rings out.
Cynthia Cohen Encourages Global Peace Through the Arts
Cohen directs the Peacebuilding and the Arts Program to bring the arts to conflicted areas around the globe.
Working Against the Clampdown
Activist watchdogs offer support to artists while sorting out fact from rumor, propaganda and the netherworld between.
