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November 7, 2023

Philip Roth’s Most Notorious Novel Comes to the Stage

Sabbath’s Theater in the theater.

Perhaps no work so captures Philip Roth’s preoccupation with sexual perversion as his 1995 Sabbath’s Theater, whose protagonist is the aging, degenerate, and unsuccessful puppeteer Mickey Sabbath. The novel was recently adapted for the stage, with John Turturro playing the title role. Ari Hoffman writes in his review:

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