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The Abbey Theater will produce its own 2023 season of plays and musicals, while also filling the performing space with productions by resident troupes. ....
Jan 17th, 2021 3 min read COMMENTARY BY Director, Civil Society and the American Dialogue Katie Gorka serves as Director of the Feulner Institute’s Center for Civil Society and the American Dialogue. The fifth annual Conservative Theatre Festival will give conservative playwrights a platform to have their voices heard at the Abbey Theater in Dublin, Ohio, on Jan. 29 and 30. maksicfoto/Getty Images Key Takeaways Succeeding in the world of theater is tough no matter who you are. But if you’re a conservative Orthodox Jew, it’s even tougher. Today, theater, film, television, and literature are almost entirely in lockstep with the woke left and marginal voices have been marginalized into silence. ....
Commentary By Katharine Gorka is director of the Center for Civil Society and the American Dialogue at The Heritage Foundation s Feulner Institute. Succeeding in the world of theater is tough no matter who you are. But if you’re a conservative Orthodox Jew, it’s even tougher. Just ask Joshua Danese. Danese is hardly new to the profession. Some three decades ago, he found success as a young, progressive, secular Jewish writer. He wrote and produced plays and occasionally acted as well. Then one day, he was inspired to write a play about Orthodox Jews. “I started doing research about them, one thing led to another, and in that journey I ended up being religious,” he told me in an interview. ....