Being trapped in the wrong body is no fun, since the only escape is to disguise yourself in order to be true to yourself. The Jewish-American author Isaac Bashevis Singer knew this when he penned the ...

"Papa, can you hear me?" Barbra Streisand crooned in her intensely sentimental 1983 movie "Yentl." “Oh, s---!” goes a bluesy lyric in a newly musicalized stage version of “Yentl” getting its area ...

Singer-songwriter Jill Sobule is probably best known for her 1995 hit single, "I Kissed a Girl." These days, she's taking on a new musical project: the gender-bending play by Isaac Bashevis Singer, ...

Somehow it seems absolutely right that the woman who wrote and sang the MTV hit “I Kissed a Girl” and “Supermodel” is penning the slightly subversive, excellently wry and humorous music and lyrics for ...

Editor’s note: This story was updated at 1 p.m. Jan. 23 to correct the last name of actress Rebecca Gibel. , is based on Isaac Bashevis Singer’s short story ‘Yentl, The Yeshiva Boy.’ The play had a ...

"YENTL," the play now in production at the Cleveland Play House, is based on Isaac Bashevis Singer's short story, "YENTL, THE YESHIVA BOY." The play had a short Broadway run in 1975, but the story is ...

If Yentl had a formula, it would go something like this: two parts Twelfth Night plus one part Boys Don’t Cry, with a generous pinch of Fiddler on the Roof. Still with me? Good—because while the play, ...

Cleveland Play House (CPH) will begin the New Year with a captivating production of Yentl. Based on the short story "Yentl, the Yeshiva Boy" by Isaac Bashevis Singer and adapted for the stage by Leah ...

Highlight: Yentl, posing as a man, is fitted for her groom's suit. Low point: A few too many set changes created lulls in the narrative. Length: 2 hours, 30 minutes. See it: Through April 29 at ...

Barbra Streisand and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis don’t have much in common. However, in many ways the themes explored in Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’ hit summer song ‘Same Love’ are the same as the Academy ...