As an avid moviegoer, live theater takes second fiddle for me unless it’s the revival of some childhood favorite. I confess I ran to “South Pacific” and “West Side Story” once they showcased in my hometown D.C. — my girlfriends and I used to play the records and act out the songs in our basements when we were young.
But there is always the attraction of newer creative projects that scream, “Come see me.” So it was a no-brainer to attend the Off-Broadway play “Old Jews Telling Jokes” the minute I read the title. It didn’t hurt that the play was co-written by a high school and college friend Dan Okrent, a respected magazine editor and author, a former New York Times public editor — and creator of rotisserie baseball.