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This fall a team of board members, community members and Alliance staff came together to create a strategic plan for the next three years. They created a community survey which more than 350 people responded to. Another 150 people participated in small group discussions. The goal was to gauge how the community’s needs have shifted or solidified in key areas since the last strategic plan

PROVIDENCE – There is an unspoken contract between the creators of theater and those attending it. 

We in the audience agree that the artificiality of what is taking place on stage – the stylized unfolding of a scripted narrative, the representation of a time and a place that is not necessarily our own and the incarnation of invented others by actors – will be accepted as real. For the length of the production, we allow …

BOSTON – It took nearly 60 years for “Funny Girl” to return to Broadway in revival, an astonishing length of time considering that the popular 1964 production earned eight Tony nominations and lasted 1,348 performances.

The primary reason for the delay was finding the right woman to play Fanny Brice – the legendary Jewish star of vaudeville’s Ziegfeld Follies at the turn-of-the-20^th century – once Barbra Streisand was done with her. It was Streisand’s Tony-nominated performance on stage (she lost to Carol Channing in “Hello, Dolly!”) …

(JTA) — A new Jewish climate initiative says it has secured $18 million in philanthropic commitments for grants and advocacy work in the United States and Israel.  The idea behind the …

(JTA) — A grant to study linguistic differences between Hebrew and English was flagged as an example of “woke DEI grants” in a new database released by Sen. Ted Cruz. The …