Theater & Performing Arts
Theater Latté Da reprises Tony-winner ‘Indecent’
By DORIS RUBENSTEIN Paula Vogel is the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of Indecent, which will be presented Sept. 16 through Oct....
Ari Hoptman wonders why words are what they are
By DORIS RUBENSTEIN Why has Ari Hoptman chosen Is That Why? as the title for his one-man show at this...
Save the loons
By DORIS RUBENSTEIN Anyone who’s spent a full summer at a lake cabin knows the type: the guy who’s lived...
‘Little Wars’ looks to the past to explain our present
By DORIS RUBENSTEIN What would you expect of four smart Jewish women getting together informally at a lake home up...
Director Ben McGovern reflects on ‘The Happiest Man on Earth’
By DORIS RUBENSTEIN Six Points Theater is unquestionably a Jewish theater company. But it also prides itself on inclusivity; many...
‘Purple Rain’ hits the stage in Minneapolis
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR I’ll start with my Prince stories. In 1983, I was writing and doing political organizing around various...
Children’s Theatre Company’s ‘Treasure Island’ features one Jewish actor as three pirates
By DORIS RUBENSTEIN Did you know that one of history’s most famous pirates was Jewish? Yes, Jean Lafitte, hero of...
‘In here, life is beautiful’
By ELANA WARREN / Assistant Editor On the Wurtele Thrust Stage at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, people are gay...
John Orenstein creates a musical for the Fringe
By DORIS RUBENSTEIN John Orenstein was one slick attorney for many years. He knew how to get what he wanted...
Jay Eisenberg fills multiple roles onstage and off
By DORIS RUBENSTEIN How and why would Jay Owen Eisenberg, a native New Yorker, a theater major graduate of the...
