âIn the theater you are either Jewish, Italian or gay and I chose Jewish,â says Protestant-born lyricist Richard Maltby Jr. during a conference call that includes his long time Jewish collaborator, composer David Shire. âMusical theater is so profoundly Jewishâitâs like living in a Kibbutzâyou canât help becoming Jewish. Also, ...
Documentary filmmaker Roberta Grossman is obsessed with the Holocaust, always has been. Its ever-present evilâthe ultimate ârift in humanity,â she saysâjust wonât let go. âItâs not that I canât pull away from it, but rather why others can.â So she asserts on the phone from her home in Los Angeles. ...
Looking back at his almost 40-year career as a multi-award winning musical theater composer-lyricist (Nine, Titanic, Grand Hotel, Death Takes
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When Soon By You, a comic web series, started its life as a 15-minute film in 2016, the prospect of a series seemed unattainableâthough âit was certainly a dream.â ...
Leah Forster, 36, is an ultra-Orthodox female standup comicâa rare occurrence if ever there was oneâand she has always been a controversial figure. ...
Abby Stein is the first openly transgender ex-Hasid and a lightning rod for Hasidic trans-youth. ...