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Bar­bara Isenberg

Bar­bara Isen­berg, author of Tra­di­tion!, is an award win­ning jour­nal­ist who has been writ­ing and lec­tur­ing about the­ater for over three decades. She is the author of Mak­ing It Big: The Diary of a Broad­way Musi­cal, State of the Arts: Cal­i­for­nia Artists Talk About Their Workand Con­ver­sa­tions with Frank Gehry. Her work has appeared in the LA Times, the Wall Street Jour­nal, Time, Esquire, The Huff­in­g­ton Post, and London’s Sun­day Times. She lives in Los Ange­les. Read more about her and her work here.

Rem­i­nisc­ing with Bel Kauf­man about Sholem Aleichem

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The Com­ings and Goings of Songs in ​“Fid­dler on the Roof”

Ear­li­er this week Bar­bara Isen­berg wrote about rem­i­nisc­ing with Bel Kauf­man about Sholem Ale­ichem. She is the author of Tra­di­tion!, is an award win­ning jour­nal­ist…
Bar­bara Isenberg
September 4, 2014
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Rem­i­nisc­ing with Bel Kauf­man about Sholem Aleichem

Bar­bara Isen­berg, author of Tra­di­tion!, is an award win­ning jour­nal­ist who has been writ­ing and lec­tur­ing about the­ater for over three decades. She is blog­ging here…
Bar­bara Isenberg
September 2, 2014
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Tra­di­tion!: The High­ly Improb­a­ble, Ulti­mate­ly Tri­umphant Broad­way-to-Hol­ly­wood Sto­ry of Fid­dler on the Roof, the World’s Most Beloved Musical
Bar­bara Isenberg

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