Playwright and actor Arielle Zaytsev's imaginative new play imagines Grigori Rasputin and Vladimir Putin as lovers.

The Matriarchs imagines a universe where life’s unfairest moments can be made more tolerable through friendship, conversation, and understanding.

Paula Vogel's play, Indecent,explores relationships against the backdrop of assimilation, antisemitism, and censorship. 

Despite the misogynistic undertones of the original myth, I believeHadestownpromotes a feminist message. 

While it tackles heavy subjects with sensitivity,Six unfortunately leans heavily on stereotypes in its characterization of Henry VIII’s wives.

Madame Goldye Steiner was the first known African-American woman singer ofkhazones, or Ashkenazi Jewish liturgical music. She was the only known African-American woman in thekhaznte artistic movement in which non-synagogue audiences experiencedkhazones, sung by women in concert halls, on the radio, and on gramophone recordings.

Inez Bensusan, an Australian and English playwright, actress, and suffragist, was born on September 11, 1871. She wrote and acted in many feminist plays and was active in multiple activist groups, often combining theater and feminism for a political cause.

Surrealist photographer Claude Cahun lived their life in a spirit of rebellion and defiance. From their precocious teenage years, defying conventional ideals of beauty and femininity with their shaven head and male attire, to their direct resistance of German occupying forces, they active worked against the suppression of liberty and freedom—a life of resistance. 

JWA chats with actor and playwright Kres Mersky about her one-woman show,The Life and Times of A. Einstein.

Charlotte Charlaque was a transgender trailblazer, actress, and translator in Weimer Berlin and post-Shoah New York City. 

Sometimes it feels easier to show up at the same bar and sing every week than to really feel the weight of the moment we live in.

A post-show conversation about RBG and Israel leads to a moment of connection. 

Berta Singerman (1901-1998) was an Argentine actress and reciter of poetry, famous throughout the Ibero-American cultural world. Born in Russia to a family of traditional singers (chazanim), she immigrated to Buenos Aires, Argentina, when she was four years old.

JWA talks to Rising Voices Fellowship alum Eleanor Harris for our series marking the 10th anniversary of the fellowship.

JWA chats with Leah Berkenwald, co-creator of the new audio-drama, A Feminist Romance Novel, Podcast! Temptations at Sweetwater Creek.

Women are at the forefront of efforts to change the perception and reality of Jewish life in Germany. 

JWA talks to playwright Anna Ziegler. 

After several decades off the stage, Funny Girl returned to Broadway in a 2022 revival starring Jewish actress Beanie Feldstein. On March 26, 2022, Feldstein mounted the stage of the August Wilson Theatre, and stepped into the role of Fanny Brice, bringing her own comedic twist to the Jewish vaudeville character that left the theater roaring with laughter.  

Our new series7 Questions For... debuts with Black Jewish actor/singer/songwriter Tatiana Wecshler. 

Sandy Gartner and Ann Buffum interviewed Sylvia Willard on June 29, 2005, in Rutland, Vermont, as part of the Vermont Jewish Women's Oral History Project. Willard shares her family history, growing up in Vermont, her passion for theater, involvement in the Jewish community, meeting her husband Howard, and their successful ventures in the retail industry.

Israeli writer, actor, director, and producer Hanna Azoulay-Hasfari consistently advocates for Mizrahi voices in her artistic pursuits. Through films and plays that often foreground Mizrahi women’s stories in Israel, she integrates her passions for art and advocacy to produce internationally acclaimed works about stories personal to her life.