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Hanoch Levin's new work, Shoko Nagai at Barbes, Tony-winner Richard Greenberg’s 'The Perplexed,' British comic Ashley Blaker...and more.
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An Art House With a Jewish Soul, NYC’s Film Forum Turns 50
They started with 50 folding chairs, one 16mm Bell and Howell projector and an annual budget of $19,000, miniscule even in 1970. That was a half-century ago (on Oct. 31, to be exact). Today, Film Forum is a little bigger: four screens, 469 seats (none of them folding chairs), a $6 million operating budget for […]
‘Shtisel’ Creator on the Incident That Inspired Him to Create the Hit Show
In Israel, charedi boys grow up dreaming of getting into a top yeshiva, and some secular boys dream of attending the top film school. Yehonatan Indursky did both. The creator and writer of the popular Netflix series “Shtisel,” about a charedi family in Jerusalem, told a crowd at B’nai Jeshurun on Manhattan’s Upper West Side […]