Tufts University Hillel invites you to a staged reading of a brand-new play, "Benefit Performance, or The Other Jew," by playwright Cary Mazer. The play was inspired by people, events, and plays featured in the Barnard Hewitt Award-winning book, "Hideous Characters and Beautiful Pagans: Performing Jewish Identity on the Antebellum American Stage," by Heather Nathans, Chair of the Department of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies and Alice and Nathan Gantcher Professor in Judaic Studies at Tufts. The performance features Tufts…