He does not get there. “Prayer for the French Republic” is, in one sense, timely, delivering as it does pointed and direct arguments between characters who represent differing points of view on the ...

It is one way for a playwright to cover a lot of territory in record time. Create a character who is bipolar – or, to use an old term, “manic depressive” – and set her down with a character that has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I first saw “Prayer for the French Republic,” Joshua Harmon’s epic exploration of the legacy, or legacies, of antisemitism, just a ...

MTC will produce the Broadway premiere of Prayer for the French Republic, written by Drama Desk Award winner Joshua Harmon and directed by Tony Award winner David Cromer, as the second production of ...

Prayer for the French Republic – Photo: Ryan Maxwell READ THIS REVIEW IN THE MAGAZINE In two very different plays currently on D.C. stages, two very different families rally around a grown son who’s ...

The brutal Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas on Israel have since cast broad shadows on Broadway. They were there at the opening of the musical “Harmony” and they are there again at the Broadway transfer of ...

The cast of Prayer for the French Republic will feature Betsy Aidem (Leopoldstadt, Prayer at MTC), Francis Benhamou (Prayer at MTC – winner, 2022 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Featured ...

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Recent events in Gaza could lead some to view Joshua Harmon’s blistering, funny and heartbreaking Prayer for the French Republic as uncannily prophetic, but let’s not give the playwright overmuch ...

“Prayers for the French Republic,” from the author of “Bad Jews,” follows multiple generations of a French Jewish family. (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — Playwright Joshua Harmon (“Bad Jews,” ...

I first saw “Prayer for the French Republic,” Joshua Harmon’s epic exploration of the legacy, or legacies, of antisemitism, just a few weeks after the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel. At the time, I marveled ...