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Apr 14, 2016 · By Charles Isherwood. April 13, 2016. Do not give up too early on “Nathan the Wise,” an 18th-century morality play by the German writer and scholar Gotthold Ephraim Lessing being presented by...
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Mar 24, 2022 · Review by Peter Marks. March 24, 2022 at 3:29 p.m. EDT. From left, Jo Twiss, Em Whitworth and Eric Hissom in “Nathan the Wise.” (Ryan Maxwell) In “Nathan the Wise,” a Muslim, a Christian and a...
Mar 24, 2022 · The collaboration between Theater J and Folger Theatre, Nathan the Wise, is the world premiere of Michael Bloom's adaptation of the 1779 Gotthold Ephriam Lessing play about a Jewish man, Nathan...
Nathan the Wise (original German title: Nathan der Weise, pronounced [ˈnaːtaːn deːɐ̯ ˈvaɪ̯zə] ⓘ) is a play by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing from 1779. It is a fervent plea for religious tolerance. It was never performed during Lessing's lifetime and was first performed in 1783 at the Döbbelinsches Theater in Berlin.
Apr 13, 2016 · The Jerusalem of 1192 in Gotthold Ephraim Lessing’s “Nathan the Wise,” currently running at Classic Stage Company, is not unlike the Jerusalem of the present: still a divided city with the three major world religions vying for supremacy and claiming with pride a unique claim on being the “sole purveyors of divine revelation.”.
Apr 14, 2016 · Nathan (F. Murray Abraham) returns home to Jerusalem after a business journey to learn that, while he was away, his daughter Rachel (Erin Neufer) was rescued from a fire by a Christian crusader: a young Knight Templar (Stark Sands).
Apr 13, 2016 · David Roberts OnStage Chief New York Theatre Critic ~~~~~ The Jerusalem of 1192 in Gotthold Ephraim Lessing’s “Nathan the Wise,” currently running at Classic Stage Company, is not unlike the Jerusalem of the present: still a divided city with the three major world religions vying for supremacy
