The Trouble They’ve Seen
Ted Merwin Are the Holocaust and slavery comparable? In Veronica Page’s new Off-Broadway play, “Prayers for the Ghetto,” a Jewish girl (Linda Wartenweiler) and two black girls (Ta’ Donna Nagle and...
View ArticleLove In Black And White (And Jewish)
Ted Merwin Special To The Jewish Week ‘Sam’s Romance’ explores the 1950s relationship between a middle-aged Jewish man and his young African-American employee.Loneliness, as an old Jewish proverb...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Israel Play Is Off
Gary Rosenblatt Editor and Publisher Can a pro-Israel drama make it in New York these days?One would think so, given the size and Zionist passion of the community and its love of theater.But the...
View ArticleGay And Orthodox, According To Jon Marans
Ted Merwin Special To The Jewish Week Can homosexuality and Orthodox Judaism mix? In Jon Marans’ new Off-Broadway play, “A Strange and Separate People,” Jay (Jonathan Hammond) and Phyllis (Tricia...
View ArticleWhy Is This Night Different...
Ted Merwin Special To The Jewish Week Leading the Passover seder each year is, for many Jewish men, a sign of their continuing vigor and prominence within the family. In Jennifer Maisel’s Off-Broadway...
View ArticleCelebs’ Jewish Lives Celebrated In Song
Ted Merwin Special To The Jewish Week From Edgar Bronfman to Gwyneth Paltrow to Aaron Sorkin, musical dramatizes interviews pulled from Abigail Pogrebin’s book. Ever since the rise of celebrity...
View ArticleA Curtain Call For Paddy Chayefsky
Ted Merwin Special To The Jewish Week A new production of ‘Middle of the Night’ and a new biography fueling a reassessment of the screenwriter-playwright’s emotionally charged work. Mention the name...
View ArticleA Bunch Of Real Characters
Ted Merwin Special To The Jewish Week From Bert Lahr to Jack Gilford, among the most beloved of Broadway performers are “character actors” — those who play quirky and eccentric characters, often in...
View ArticleSurviving Auschwitz, Times Two
Ted Merwin Special To The Jewish Week Czech actress and athlete are focus of ‘The Good and the True.’ They may be equally hair-raising and heartrending, but no two stories of survival in Auschwitz are...
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