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Alisa Solomon

  • Director of the Arts & Culture concentration, Columbia Journalism School
New York
As seen in: The New York Times, The Guardian, New York Daily News, The Atlantic, Fortune, The New Yorker, VICE, The Intercept, The Nation, Hyperallergic and
Prof, Columbia J-School; author, Wonder of Wonders: A Cultural History of Fiddler on the Roof; dramaturg @AnnaDeavereS Notes from the Field; train @SeidoKarate
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Birthright Stages a Tired Debate

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By Arielle Angel Verified, Alisa Solomon
| Jewish Currents Verified
After a few years of seeing Jewish plays “debating” Israel/Palestine, Jewish Currents editor-at-large Arielle Angel and theater critic Alisa Solomon spent the last six weeks exchanging letters exploring the phenomenon of the Israel argument play. I’m having a creepy bout of déjà vu and need to process with you! I just saw a new play called The Zionists: A Family Storm by S. Asher Gelman at Barrington Stage Company (which caters to summer-home folks in the Berkshires).
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‘Take that Phony Dream and Burn It’

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By Alisa Solomon
| Soundings from The New York Review
Just a few weeks before Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman premiered on Broadway on February 10, 1949, President Harry Truman elaborated his “Fair Deal” for the American people in his State of the Union address. “We have rejected the discredited theory that the fortunes of the Nation should be in the hands of a privileged few,” he declared. “We have abandoned the ‘trickledown’ concept of national prosperity.
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Wallace Shawn’s Moral Cliffs

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By Alisa Solomon
| Jewish Currents Verified
“The thought did occur to me . . .” The words that begin Wallace Shawn’s new play, What We Did Before Our Moth Days (running through May 24th at Greenwich House Theater in Manhattan), have incendiary power. They ignite a fuse that smolders through this mild-mannered but emotionally agitating three-hour drama, which traces a simple-seeming plot: the developing, then dissolving, relationship between a husband and wife. Their grown son and the husband’s lover fill out the four-character ensemble.
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