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5Q: Paint Your Wagon “5Q” is an online-only column featuring five questions about stage productions in the Metro Area with a special focus on the GLBTQ community’s relationship to the production. Periodically, “5Q” will take the form of an interview with actors, directors, writers, etc. to shed some light on the production process. A sweeping saga of the West and the pursuit of the “American Dream,” the musical Paint Your Wagon tells the inspiring story of the rise and fall of a remote mining town during the height of the California Gold Rush. The new book for Paint Your Wag...

The Australian opera and theater director Elijah Moshinsky, who died on Jan. 14 of COVID-19 complications at age 75, was celebrated for his onstage collaborations with superstar singers from Luciano Pavarotti to Plácido Domingo, and stage legends from Helen Mirren to Judi Dench. Yet Moshinsky’s most ardent lifelong inspiration was arguably drawn from his Jewish experience. The moral and ethical imperatives displayed in his work drew directly from wide-ranging exposure to Yiddishkeit. Moshinsky’s Orthodox Jewish parents had fled from Vladivostok in the Soviet Union to the Shanghai French ...