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Glick, who has spent many summers visit-
ing family in Israel, is Jewish, as is director
Michael Mayer. His credits are as diverse as
Thoroughly Modern Millie on stage and
the recent film Flicka.
At the Eugene O'Neill Theater, 230 W
49th St. (212) 239-6200.
Talk Radio
After receiving rave reviews Off-Broadway,
Eric Bogosian's Talk Radio moves to
Broadway. This production, starring Liev
Schreiber, is about controversial late-
night talk-radio host Barry Champlain,
who expands his popular talk show from
Cleveland nationwide. On one memorable
night, the shock jock interacts with a variety
of troubled callers, and, in trying to help
them, his true emotions are revealed live on
the air.
Schreiber, who wrote and directed the
film Everything Is Illuminated, based on
Jonathan Safran Foer's award-winning novel,
has starred in many roles on stage and screen
and was born Isaac Liev Schreiber; he is
Jewish on his mother's side. The play opens
Feb. 25.
At the Longacre Theatre, 220 W 48th
Street. (212) 239-6200.
Broadway — Limited Run
Losing Louie
When gathering for Jewish patriarch Louie's
funeral, family skeletons and bitterness sur-
face in this comedy that explores how child-
hood memories affect us.
Starring Jewishactor Matthew Arkin (son
of Alan); directed by Jerry Zacks (the Tony
Award-winning son of Holocaust survi-
vors); sound design by Dan Moses Schreier.
Through Dec. 10.
At the Biltmore Theater, 261 W 47th
St. (212) 239-6200.
The Apple Tree
Kristin Chenoweth stars in three one-act
musicals about men, women and temptation,
based on Mark Twain's The Diary of Adam
and Eve, Frank R. Stockton's The Lady or
the Tiger and Jewish writer Jules Feiffer's
Passionella.
Jewish actor Mark Kudisch (Chitty
Chitty Bang Bang, Thoroughly Modern
Millie) is one of the show's stars; his mother,
Florence Rosenthal, grew up in Detroit and
graduated from Mumford High School.
Previews begin Nov. 28; opens Dec. 14;
closes March 11.
At Studio 54, 254 W 54th St. (212)
719-1300.
The Coast of Utopia
Through March 10, Lincoln Center Theater
presents a Tom Stoppard trilogy: Voyage
(currently playing), Shipwreck (begins Dec.
6) and Salvage (begins Jan. 30), which all
play in rotating performances. Set in the mid-
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19th century and spanning three decades,
the drama follows a group of Russian intel-
lectuals, journalists, critics, philosophers and
poets who lead their countrymen in a revolu-
tionary movement to topple the czar.
The Czech-born Stoppard's Jewish family
escaped the Nazis by fleeing to Singapore,
where his father was killed in the Japanese
invasion. His mother later married Kenneth
Stoppard, a major in the British army, and
the playwright adopted his non-Jewish
stepfather's name.
Ethan Hawke, Amy Irving, Richard Easton,
Martha Plimpton and Billy Crudup are
among the 44 actors performing in the plays.
During the last three Saturdays — Feb. 24,
March 3 and 10 — the trilogy will be per-
formed in one-day marathons.
At the Vivian Beaumont Theater, 150
W. 65th St. (212) 239-6200.
The Vertical Hour
Written by non-Jewish British playwright
David Hare — his play Via Dolorosa chron-
icled his visit to Israel and the Palestinian
territories — The Vertical Hour is the first
of Hare's plays to premiere in the United
States.
Nadia Blye (Julianne Moore), a young
American war correspondent who teaches
political studies at Yale, travels with her
boyfriend to visit his father near the Welsh
border. The father's culture and beliefs are
different from hers, and, after a long discus-
sion, she begins to question her political
views. A romantic love triangle occurs among
the three characters.
Directed by Sam Mendes (the Oscar-win-
ning American Beauty), who was born in
England to a Portuguese Protestant father
and an English Jewish mother.Through
March 30.
At the Music Box Theatre, 239 W 45st
St. (212) 239-6200.
Off-.Broadway
25 Questions
for a Jewish Mother
Comedian Judy Gold's one-woman show tells
of her journey to becoming a parent, while
learning to be a daughter to her own Jewish
mother. She includes anecdotes from her own
life and other Jewish women's lives.
At the St. Luke's Theatre, 308 W 46th
St. (212) 239-6200.
How To Save the World and Find
True Love in 90 Minutes
A pop musical, this is the story of a cowardly
bookshop clerk, a sexy United Nations dip-
lomat and an idealistic freeloader who risk
everything when an office romance leads to
an international crisis.
Book and lyrics by Jewish former Random
House editor Jonathan Karp; music by
Jewish composer and musical director Seth
Weinstein. At the New World Stages Stage
5, 340 W 50th St. (212) 239-6200.
The Little Dog Laughed
This comedy about a Hollywood agent
whose biggest client is an in-the-closet gay
man with a propensity for picking up male
hustlers includes adult language and male
nudity.
Cast member Ari Graynor, born Ariel
Geltman Graynor, played Caitlin Rucker on
HBO's The Sopranos, and she has a small
role in the just-released film comedy For
Your Consideration.
At the Cort Theatre, 138 W 48th St.
(212) 239-6200.
Shout! The Mod Musical
A coming-of-age musical revue that travels
back in time and tells the story of five women
during the liberating days of 1960s England
examines that mod era and includes some of
the decade's most popular tunes.
Co-created by Phillip George and
David Lowenstein and choreographed by
Lowenstein, who is Jewish.
At the Julia Miles Theatre (Theatre
Four), 424 W 55th St. (212) 239-6200.
Off-Broadway Limited
Howard Katz
Written by Patrick Marber, this dark comedy
starring Alfred Molina in the title role (the
non-Jewish actor originated the Tevye role in
the recent revival of Fiddler on the Roof) is
about a once prominent Jewish show-busi-
ness agent who is down on his luck. Through
flashbacks and dream sequences, Katz recalls
his rise and fall.
British Jewish writer-actor Marber wrote
the play Closer, which was adapted into the
2004 film starring Julia Roberts, Jude Law
and Natalie Portman. Runs Feb. 2-April 29.
At the Laura Pels Theater, 111 W 46th
St. (212) 719-1300.
My Mother's Italian, My Father's
Jewish & I'm in Therapy
This humorous one-man show written
by and starring Steve Solomon is set in a
therapist's office and shows what it was like
growing up in a household with two religions
and conflicting backgrounds. Through Jan.
28 with a possible extension.
At the Little Shubert Theatre, 422 W
42nd St. (212) 239-6200.
My Name Is Rachel Corrie
The controversial one-woman drama
chronicles the life and death of Rachel Corrie,
a 23-year-old (non-Jewish) American pro-
Palestinian activist who served as a shield at
homes in Gaza. She was killed by an Israeli
army bulldozer that was on a mission to
combat weapon smuggling. Through Dec. 30.
At the Minetta Lane Theatre, 18
Minetta Lane. (212) 307-4100.
Top to bottom:
Jeffrey Schecter (front) in A Chorus Line
Ashley Brown as the beloved nanny in
Mary Poppins
Capathia Jenkins and Marc Shaiman in
Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me
Christian Anderson as Dick, Will Chase
as Rob and Jay Klaitz as Barry in High
Fidelity