Arts & Culture | Theater

Parlor Room Drama

04/23/2013 | Ted Merwin | Special To The Jewish Week | Theater

Moving to the suburbs was one of the biggest steps that many New York Jews ever took, one largely made possible by postwar Jewish builders and entrepreneurs. But what about those who could not afford to move?

Unglued On The UWS

04/16/2013 | Ted Merwin | Special To The Jewish Week | Theater

What is the spiritual inheritance that children receive from their parents?

A Slimmed-Down ‘Fiddler’

04/09/2013 | Ted Merwin | Special To The Jewish Week | Theater

True to its vertiginous title, “Fiddler on the Roof” has become the most elevated and exalted of all Jewish musicals. Now comes a touring production of “Fiddler” that seeks to bring the musical down to earth with a focus on the show’s simpler, purer aspects rather than its larger-than-life qualities.

Simon Wiesenthal, The Play

04/03/2013 | Ted Merwin | Special To The Jewish Week | Theater

If anyone had the whiff of heroism about him, it was Simon Wiesenthal, the Austrian Jewish Holocaust survivor who became the world’s most famous Nazi hunter.

String Theory

03/19/2013 | Ted Merwin | Special To The Jewish Week | Theater

Puppets may be lifeless objects, but in the right hands, they command extraordinary emotional power. So veteran puppeteer and playwright Vit Horejš has demonstrated time and again with his Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theater, which returns this week with “King Executioner.” It’s a mysterious fable about a friendship between a Jewish musician and a young member of the Polish resistance at the outbreak of the Second World War.