'Isaac Babel and the Gangster King' Has a Neat Conceit but Needs Work

There were three stories on stage the night I attended “Isaac Babel and the Gangster King.” The musical introduces the audience to Babel, a great Russian-Jewish writer of the first half of the 20th century—praised by Sergei Eisenstein and killed by Joseph Stalin—shortly after one of his friends has been murdered by the secret police. Babel gathers some pals, including the writer Maxim Gorky, t…

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