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Leah Forster’s new off-Broadway show is anything but Orthodox

JL;DR SUMMARY Leah Forster, once a closeted Haredi teacher, is now a viral sensation and performer with her one-woman show, "That's Yentatainment," currently off-Broadway. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Places mentioned

Borough Park, New York, United States
"unfortunately, Forster understood that path wasnt possible; thats because Forster grew up in a Haredi family in Borough Park, where Broadway was goyish."
East Village, New York, United States
"Thats Yentatainment, a one-woman-show currently playing at the Theater For The New City in the East Village."
West Village, New York, United States
"Over plates of shakshuka at a kosher restaurant in the West Village its kosher, but depends who you ask, she quipped Forster told me about how being a Haredi sensation."
Brighton Beach, New York, United States
"One time I went on the train when I was like 15, I went to Brighton Beach in Brooklyn."
Brooklyn, New York, United States
"My new book, CLUB M.I.L.F.F, is the book that nobody expected me to write. The story is Leah Hart, who is an ex-ultra Orthodox Hasidic woman who escaped an arranged marriage, has a 20-year-old in college, and is rediscovering her life in Brooklyn."

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