New Jewish Theatre (NJT) emerged as one of the major standouts in the 2026 St. Louis Theater Circle Awards, which honor productions staged in 2025, earning a remarkable 31 nominations across multiple categories—second only to The Repertory...

  “Ken Ludwig’s “Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery” is riotously funny in the superb staging by the New Jewish Theatre. The play is based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic novel, “The Hound of the Baskervilles.” In...

  New Jewish Theatre 2026 season features five productions that hope to deliver laughter, tears and thought-provoking conversations. The line-up includes three new to St. Louis productions, a Tony Award–winning comedy and one of Broadway’s...

An upcoming one-act festival at Union Avenue Opera (UAO) will address troubling contemporary issues. It will also mark the directorial debut—of an opera—for theater veteran Joan Lipkin. The two operas will be performed October 10, 11 and 12 in...

At New Jewish Theatre, “The Wanderers” drops audiences into two marriages on the edge — one inside Brooklyn’s cloistered Hasidic world, the other in the freewheeling literary scene — and asks how love survives when faith, ambition and desire...

The last word of the title is surprising in “Two Jews Walk Into a War…” The opening words suggest the last one will be “bar” and that a joke will follow. Playwright Seth Rozin thwarts only the first of these expectations. “War” is not the...

(JTA) — Award-winning actor and singer Billy Porter sparked controversy while promoting his new lead role in the revival of “Cabaret” on Broadway when he stated that “Black people have replaced the Jews.” The revival of Cabaret, the 1966...

A key cast member in an upcoming production of “The Second Hurricane” is a Jewish St. Louis actor and musician. Bryn Sentnor will play the role of Gwen in the youth opera by Jewish composer Aaron Copeland. It will mark Sentnor’s first time performing...

At a rehearsal about 20 years ago, Seth Rozin - director, playwright, artistic director of Philadelphia’s InterAct Theatre - was approached by one of the actors, a New York Times in his hand. “Look at this,” the actor said. He pointed to a story...

“The Heidi Chronicles” is totally absorbing and delightful in the current production at the New Jewish Theatre. The title character of Wendy Wasserstein’s celebrated play is Heidi Holland. In the prologue, Heidi is a professor of art history...

If you’re planning to catch the New Jewish Theatre’s upcoming production of “The Heidi Chronicles,” here’s a quick primer to help you get the most out of the show. Whether you’re a longtime fan of playwright Wendy Wasserstein or just curious...

If people describe you as “the Spielberg of” anything, chances are you’re doing something right. Or at least you know what you’re doing. In the world of Shakespeare, that guy is Barry Edelstein. On May 15, Edelstein will headline the St. Louis...