Liba Vaynberg
“Daughter of the Wicked,” now playing in NYC, follows one woman’s journey to Israel as she searches for her sister who disappeared in the Yemenite Missing Children Affair.
A Quest for a Missing Sister Tells a Deeper Story
Author: Liba Vaynberg
Jill Sobule is Still Laughing at the World
Liba Vaynberg
Jill Sobule on the impact of 7th grade, crushing on Gloria Steinem and getting away with her “insidious gay agenda.”
“Young Girls Are Hotbeds of Trauma”–Talking to Playwright Stephanie Swirsky
Liba Vaynberg
A play about a girl who falls through some kind of Shabbas time-hole and finds herself at a Jewish youth event with Jared Kushner—yes, that Jared Kushner—whose dick she would like to break.
Up Close and Personal With the New “Funny Girl”—Julie Benko
Liba Vaynberg
As an understudy, Benko covered five female roles in the first national tour of Spring Awakening and then eight roles (including all four daughters) in the recent Broadway production of Fiddler On The Roof.
I Am Russian… In Name Only
Liba Vaynberg
I am not Russian, but I speak Russian. It’s a kind of nonconsensual tattoo Stalin left behind on my parents—better tattooed than dead.
On Who Wears the Pants….
Liba Vaynberg
I wore only skirts for years, but I didn’t care for Judaism much. I wear pants now, but I pray.
We Are Still Being Called to Action
Liba Vaynberg
There you go, and here we are. Did we need reminding? Of meaning and truth? And its arbiters? We did. We always do.
Notes from a Pandemic: On Chains of Isolation, and Transmission
Liba Vaynberg
All we can do is communicate—it is always what we could have done, and it will always be the one thing we can do.
My Father’s Daughter
Liba Vaynberg
And then, he jumps in, “What about Harvey Weinstein? What do you think about Harvey Weinstein.”