EPISODE · Apr 23, 2025 · 46 MIN

Emil Weinstein — BECOMING EVE

from The Present Stage: Conversations with Theater Writers · host Emil Weinstein, Dan Rubins

Becoming Eve, a New York Theater Workshop production, runs at the Abrons Arts Center through April 27th. To learn more, visit www.nytw.org. Follow The Present Stage on Instagram at @thepresentstageThe Present Stage: Conversations with Theater Writers is hosted by Dan Rubins, a theater critic for Theatermania and Slant Magazine. You can also find Dan's reviews on Cast Album Reviews  and in The New Yorker's Briefly Noted column.The Present Stage supports the national nonprofit Hear Your Song. If you'd like to learn more about Hear Your Song and how to support empowering youth with serious illnesses to make their voices heard though songwriting, please visit www.hearyoursong.org

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Emil Weinstein joins the podcast to share about the creation of Becoming Eve, a theatrical adaptation of a memoir by Abby Chava Stein, once a Hasidic rabbi, that charts her journey towards coming out as a transgender woman. We explore the unexpected obstacles to getting the play staged after the Archdiocese that ran the Connelly Theater blocked the production, as well as the intricacies of how playwright and memoirist became friends as he adapted her story and how that friendship impacted the writing and rehearsal process. We also dive into the use of puppetry in the play, the challenge of engaging audiences in a conversation about rabbinical scholarship, and the significance of telling trans stories in 2025.

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