Three generations on, filmmakers, writers and artists are making new meaning from ancestral trauma.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:31AMItamar Moses wrote a drama of ideas about Israel and antisemitism. Then Oct. 7 happened.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:42PMFor their adaptation of “Sabbath’s Theater,” John Turturro and Ariel Levy sought to preserve “the nasty side of existence” evoked in the book.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:19AMThe Children’s Theater Company production, based on the animated film, elevates the depiction of its characters’ religious and ethnic backgrounds.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:03PMThe Frigid Fringe Festival in New York said it would no longer bill itself as “uncensored” after deciding not to move ahead with a performance it deemed anti-trans.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:00PM“It is never permissible to alter an artistic work such as ‘Hamilton’ without legal permission,” said a message on Instagram, which added that the church would pay damages.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:48PMThe shuttered show is facing legal action from the actors, stage managers and designers who worked on the production.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:54PMShould Shakespeare’s Richard III be reserved for disabled actors? Does the character have to be played by a white man? By a man at all? Three recent productions took different tacks.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:24AMThe playwright fueled outrage with his claim on Fox News that teachers were “inclined” to pedophilia as he promoted a new book that decries “the Left’s anti-Trump psychosis.”
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