Valerie Leonard's engrossing performance as a powerful matriarch lifts the Theater J premiere of the English-language The Jewish Queen Lear beyond a nostalgia-laden look back to a once highly successful Yiddish-language play entitled Mirele Efros (1898) written by Jacob Gordin. The recent English translation is by Nahma Sandrow (read Ravelle Brickman's interview with Sandrow here). […] The post Review: 'The Jewish …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:11PM on March 20, 2019