theater

Royal Court Theatre changes character’s name following antisemitism charges

The character, based on Elon Musk, was named Hershel Fink due to “unconscious bias,” the theater said.

Romanian man arrested for allegedly threatening to throw Jewish actress ‘into a gas chamber’

The author of an email to the director fo the Jewish Theater in Bucharest also said he would rape the daughter of the institution’s director.

Ideas

This deadly tragedy at a Yiddish performance is the reason it’s illegal to yell ‘fire!’ in a crowded theater

Yelling fire in a crowded theater is not theoretical: it was drawn from a tragedy that occurred on a cold night in January 1887at the Hebrew Dramatic Club of London, and which took the lives of seventeen people.

Culture

‘It’s a call to action’: A Yiddish theater company puts on a Sinclair Lewis play that imagines US falling into authoritarianism

Victor Shargai and Actress Susan Lynskey exchnaging their affection at an awards event in Washington DC, the United States on April 21, 2014. (Kate Warren for The Washington Post via Getty Images).

Obituaries

DC theater leader Victor Shargai dies at 83

Culture

The king of farce’s new play is inspired by his parents’ love letters

Actors performing the play "Our People" at the Juozas Miltinis Drama Theater in Panevėžys, Lithuania on Nov. 24, 2019. (Arvydo Gudo)

Global

Lithuanian state theater stages controversial play on Holocaust complicity

Culture

Why does a man need to star in a play about legendary politician Bella Abzug?

Culture

A classic play sounds more American when it is performed in Yiddish. Go figure.

Watch

Nudity and neon lights at the annual Israel Festival

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