Author: Aileen Jacobson

If it’s a revenge play then he failed, though he presents the old woman with all her failings, including an anti-Semitic (and racist) streak.

These are the title’s mean girls, and who wouldn’t want to be like them? The musical is supposedly saying that no one should—but that is not the aesthetic or emotional message.

It is truly delightful to find a play that is about young women who are interested in the wide world, in their sport and in each other. 

While the play makes no overt references to Jews aspiring or attaining high office, that doesn’t mean there is nothing for Jewish feminists to gnaw on.

“Once not long ago a group of musicians came to Israel from Egypt.” That is followed by: “You probably didn’t hear about it. It wasn’t very important.”

Aileen Jacobson reviews Broadway’s new “Marvin’s Room,” which raises questions about a woman’s traditional role as a caregiver versus her right to personal freedom.

Who would ever have imagined that a sequel based on any play by Henrik Ibsen could be a nearly nonstop laugh fest?

The play doesn’t delve deep into these paradoxes. It never really examines the fraught relationship between women (especially feminists) and their lipsticks—and eyebrow pencils and tweezers and other paraphernalia.

The scarcity of productions of plays by women is partly the result of misogyny, though also of an “unconscious disinterest…