How Jewish People Built the American Theater
It’s a history “based on the necessity of opening up and looking beyond, instead of suffocating in, the small space of the self — not only to avoid being pigeonholed but also to exercise the muscle of sympathy.”
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![This past summer, T invited dozens of Jewish actors, playwrights, songwriters and directors to join their collaborators and colleagues for a group portrait in New York, onstage at Broadway’s Lyceum Theater. When nearly 50 of them arrived on Sept. 11, 2023, it was all but impossible to get them to take their places as they sang songs, told jokes and shared stories of lives spent — together, joyously — in the theater.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/static01.nyt.com/images/2023/11/30/t-magazine/30tmag-jewishtheater-slide-MCTK-copy-copy/30tmag-jewishtheater-slide-MCTK-copy-copy-videoLarge.jpg?auto=webp)