BOSTON – Is "The Merchant of Venice" a ‘problem play?’ Igor Golyak believes it is—but not in the way that...

Call Studs Terkel a kind of documentarian Dickens. The son of Russian Jewish immigrants (1912-2008) interviewed hundreds of Americans from...

Are stage characters locked in a kind of Sartre’s Hell as in “No Exit?” Could they be Pirandello’s wanderers searching...

Is socially distanced performance real theater? This question has been asked of virtually all stage efforts since the outbreak of...

In the age of COVID-19, Hub Theatre Company of Boston has a timely option. As producer-actress Lauren Elias revealed in...

BOSTON – Is “The Merchant of Venice” anti-Semitic? Scholars, directors, actors, and theatergoers continue to debate that question and diverge...

Which American women have been pioneers and exerted enduring influence during the last century? Such profiles of courage as Rosa...

If you are searching for a play that sharply focuses on the Passover Seder, “We All Fall Down” is not...

Diversity dominated local theater this year. Both large and small stages embraced plays and musicals about Jewish characters and their...

Call “Moby-Dick” Herman Melville’s sublime response to the Book of Jonah. After all, the whaler Pequod’s crew proves as diverse...