Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Lemper narrates as she moves musically from the economic poverty of the ...
Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Singing in both German and English, the German-Luxembourgish artist used ...
In the 1920s, Yiddish was more than just a lingua franca for East European Jewish émigrés; it was also a language of high culture, as demonstrated by a brilliant new book, “Yiddish in Weimar Berlin: ...
Directed by Olivia Newman and starring Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson, the upcoming Neil Diamond biopic promises not just a ...
The decadence in Berlin between the World Wars lives again on the stage of San Francisco’s Hypnodrome in the Thrillpeddlers’ world-premiere production titled “The Untamed Stage: Weimar Berlin Kabarett ...
The brief but lively and productive Berlin period in the history of modern Yiddish culture is a special source of interest for contemporary researchers. Out of a melting pot of various languages, ...
A push to revitalise Yiddish and its cultural traditions has gained momentum in Germany, the very place where the Nazi regime ...
The Komische Oper has reconstructed Jaromir Weinberger’s “Frühlingsstürme,” a show that was virtually erased by Nazi rule in Germany. By Joshua Barone BERLIN — It was an evening in late January 1933, ...
German television is coming into its own. After the recent stateside success of shows like Dark and Deutschland 83, the latest subtitled offering is a crime series set in 1920s Berlin. Launching ...