There’s a new Fanny Brice in town, and the question on everyone ... final moments of Bertolt Brecht’s “Mother Courage and Her Children,” when the protagonist picks up her wagon in ...

told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that because Jewishness was central to Brice, a pioneering early 20th-century vaudevillian, it should be for anyone playing her as well. “Fanny Brice was a ...