Authors / Alisa Solomon
Alisa Solomon is the author of Wonder of Wonders: A Cultural History of Fiddler on the Roof, and of Re-Dressing the Canon: Essays on Theater and Gender and a professor at the Columbia School of Journalism.
Review
Who’s Afraid of Absurdity?
A revival of Lorraine Hansberry’s last play, The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window, captures its author’s wry rejection of political nihilism.
Alisa Solomon April 25, 2023
Review
Attention Must Be Paid
Tom Stoppard’s Leopoldstadt expects us to shed fresh tears at a worn out conclusion.
Alisa Solomon November 18, 2022
Newsletter
Rediscovering a Pathbreaking Queer Jewish Writer
A conversation with historian Jonathan Ned Katz on the life of Eve Adams.
Alisa Solomon June 10, 2021
Conversation
Degrees of Separation
Playwright David Adjmi discusses his estrangement from the Syrian Jewish community, his ambivalence about identity politics, and his new memoir Lot Six.
Alisa Solomon October 8, 2020
Review
It Happened Here
The recent TV adaptation of The Plot Against America rejects Philip Roth’s vision of American exceptionalism.
Alisa Solomon July 1, 2020
Review
Yikhes
The vexing uses of the metaphorical Jew in Matthew Lopez’s The Inheritance.
Alisa Solomon March 3, 2020
Essay
Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz, 1945 – 2018
Remembering one of American Jewry’s most inspiring activists and writers.
Esther Kaplan, Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark, Donna Nevel, and Alisa Solomon July 17, 2018
