Thought provoking, brave, funny, and poigntant, from the get go Ethan delivers a no holds bar exampination of his life that is relavant now more than ever. This story is epic in its telling. It's personal and global like all great stories. But like actually it is both. You need to watch this! ...
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Fantastic show. Well performed, timely, the perfect combination of emotion, catharsis, and humor. Complicated feelings to match a complicated subject....
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A really timely autobiographical storytelling show about Ethan's faith and family as someone growing up Jewish in the '90s and '00s in NYC. I found it interesting and informative hearing about Ethan's experience and his relationship with his family. You can feel the love he has for them shine in his stories....
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Ethan takes us on a heartfelt journey through his life as a Jewish millennial, from growing up in the ’90s to navigating today’s world.
He crafts sharp, thoughtful jokes while guiding us through a story that’s equal parts loving, religious, political, and deeply personal. Told with a keen eye and honest voice, I laughed, I learned, and I truly felt something.
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JEW, INTERRUPTED is a tender autobiographical piece. Ethan is a strong writer and performer, even if I'm not sure what his message truly was.
I struggle to write this review because I don't want to come off as negative--I did enjoy the show--it's just not exactly what I was expecting. I don't want to imply that Jewish people aren't allowed to simply tell our stories without Israel obscuring the rest of the conversation, but given the marketing I thought Israel itself would be more of a centerpiece than it was.
Instead, this show was about this person's individual experience growing up as a Jewish-American--which includes those feelings of cognitive dissonance that Israel provides on the periphery. Given the fact that Israel qualifies a...
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