Blog
(New York, NY)
I had a blast talking about “Jews and the Golden Age of Broadway” with fellow theatre mavens Alisa Solomon, Stuart Hecht, and Liz Wollman. Mazel tov to the Sandra Kahn Wasserman Center for Jewish Studies at Baruch College on a wonderful event.
Here’s the full line-up for the day-long symposium:
The Making of Jewish Theater
Panel I – 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM – “The History of Yiddish Theater”
Panelists: Alyssa Quint; David Mazower; Nahma Sandrow; Edna Nahshon
Panel II – 3:00 – 4:30 PM – “Jews and the Golden Age of Broadway”
Panelists: Alisa Solomon; Stuart Hecht; Henry Bial
Panel III – 5:30 – 7:00 PM – “Jewish Theater Today”
Panelists: David Mandelbaum; Jesse Freedman; Dan Fishback; Motl Didner
Keynote Address – 7:30 – 3:30 – Danny Burstein
with Alisa Solomon, Columbia University
Appearances
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Cornell University
(Ithaca, New York)
Delighted to have had the opportunity to give a University Lecture at Cornell. Click here for details.
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Association for Theatre in Higher Education
(Boston, Massachusetts)
I was pleased to take part in a roundtable discussion on the Museum of the Bible, with John Fletcher, Megan Sanborn Jones, Jodi Kanter, and Scott Magelssen.
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International Federation for Theatre Research
(Belgrade, Serbia)
Good house and great discussion for my paper, “The Gatekeepers: New York Theatre Critics and the Reception of European Theatre on the American State, 1920-1940” at the World Congress of the International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR 2018).
