Curt Schleier
Harris Milgrin and Becca Suskauer star in “How My Grandparents Fell in Love.” (Jordan Ryder)
July 17, 2025, 9:55 am
Part-time playwright Cary Gitter is full-time busy
‘How My Grandparents Fell in Love’ by Leonia writer on stage at NJ Rep
By Curt Schleier
Filmmaker Justin Schein made a documentary about his family.
July 17, 2025, 9:54 am
‘Death & Taxes’
Or when is a documentary also a documentarian’s therapy?
By Curt Schleier
Embeth Davidtz directs "Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight." (All photos Coco Van Oppens/Courtesy Sony Pictures Classics)
July 10, 2025, 9:56 am
Being South African, becoming Jewish
How Embeth Davidtz’s complex life informs her art
By Curt Schleier
The fictional Rabbi Burns’s temple and his real-life creator, Aben Kandel.
June 26, 2025, 11:06 am
Did Hollywood ever have culture?
Two Jewish film historians republish 1931 satire of the movie industry 
By Curt Schleier
An Israeli and an Iranian face off in a judo match in “Tatami.”
June 11, 2025, 9:54 am
Can an Iranian fight an Israeli?
‘Tatami,’ a film about judo, explores such a confrontation
By Curt Schleier
Linn-Baker’s bed-ridden character reclines among his fellow performers in “The Imaginary Invalid” at New World Stages.
June 5, 2025, 9:58 am
‘Just put in the work’
After 50 years, actor Mark Linn-Baker continues to build on the good, the bad, and the best
By Curt Schleier
The two families sit around the Shabbat table as they start an uncomfortable meal. (All photos courtesy Bad Shabbos)
May 29, 2025, 9:57 am
‘Bad Shabbos,’ good guffaws
Don’t you hate it when it’s Friday night, you’re meeting the soon-to-be machatunim, and there’s a dead body in the bathroom?
By Curt Schleier
Manny Azenberg stands in front of some posters from a few of the many shows he’s produced. (Manny Azenberg)
May 22, 2025, 9:55 am
‘…I was also a good shortstop’
From stickball and softball to Simon and Stoppard, it’s been hits for producer Manny Azenberg
By Curt Schleier
Joshua’s fighting the battle of Jericho in a still from the animated film by Amir Kovacs.
May 15, 2025, 9:53 am
Telling (and doctoring) the battle of Jericho
Director Amir Kovacs discusses his new film about Joshua
By Curt Schleier
Jeffrey Seller accepts an award; the cover of Jeffrey Seller’s book.
May 8, 2025, 9:55 am
It all started at Purim: A producer’s odyssey
Jeffrey Seller expands on ‘Rent,’ ‘Lost in Yonkers,’ and a Hebrew school moment
By Curt Schleier
Beth Lane directed the film “Unbroken,” about her family’s survival in Nazi Germany and their lives after the war.
April 24, 2025, 9:56 am
Survivor siblings remain ‘Unbroken’
New documentary follows all seven who hid outside Berlin, then thrived here
By Curt Schleier
Idina Menzel and Khaila Wilcoxon star in “Redwood.” (Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman)
April 17, 2025, 9:54 am
Climbing a tree, nourishing the soul
Theater director Tina Landau seamlessly combines family pedigree and Jewish values
By Curt Schleier
Andy Borowitz
April 10, 2025, 9:52 am
Andy Borowitz said what?
New Yorker humor columnist — and political pundit — is coming to Morristown
By Curt Schleier
Jeremy Neumark Jones is Michael and Oliver Jackson Cohen is Solomon in “The World Will Tremble.” (Courtesy of Vertical)
March 27, 2025, 9:54 am
When the world refused to tremble
Jersey-raised director focuses on 2 Holocaust escapees whose warnings were ignored
By Curt Schleier
“Once a Met, always a Met,” Mr. Shamsky wrote.
March 20, 2025, 9:54 am
Four consecutive homers — and benched
Art Shamsky reflects on that record, Pete Rose, managing in Israel, and the game today
By Curt Schleier
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