God forbid the goyim think ladies who work the street are human beings! God forbid the goyim think that Jewish ladies love each other as human beings!

I too have lost audience members. Six million have left the theater.

As you know, six nights a week we gather together to sing songs we know and love, to dance, to escape our daily lives. But on the seventh night … God created Yiddish theater.

How do we as artists question our sins in front of a greater audience? How do we as Jews show ourselves as flawed and complex human beings?