Miranda Jackel
“The Matriarchs” casts the ancillary women of the Torah as brilliant, voluble, endlessly opinionated participants in a women’s Talmud study group.
“The Matriarchs” Recasts the Torah’s Women
Tag: theater
An Evening at the Theater with Lilith: “The Matriarchs”
Sarah M. Seltzer
Join Lilith for a night at the theater to see “The Matriarchs” by Lilith contributor Liba Vaynberg and directed by Dina Vovsi.
Intrepid Pioneers & Creating a Storm: A Conversation with Isabelle Seddon
Barbara Gingold
Friends Barbara Gingold and Isabelle Seddon discuss the intersections of feminism, family, Israel, and Seddon’s recent publications Intrepid Pioneers: Jewish Women in the Public Arena and its sequel, Creating a Storm: Jewish Women in the World of Art and Culture, scheduled for publication in January 2025.
Sitting Down With the Cast of “Harmony”
Liba Vaynberg
A new Broadway musical tells the story of a half-Jewish, half-gentile singing comedy group in pre-WWII Germany
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.
Anne and Her Shadows
by Yasmine Rana
Although the scenes appeared as mere shadows and whispers, I couldn’t make them disappear. With age came a clearer sense of past and present. Being on stage playing Anne protected me from those fears.
Fiddler on the Roof (in Yiddish!) and Feminism
Aileen Jacobson
A new Yiddish production accentuates the joys of the original.
Gloria Steinem’s Life, Onstage
Aileen Jacobson
It is high time for the creation of “Gloria: A Life.” which is both a history lesson and, a visceral connection to the anger, the excitement and the hope of the feminist movement.