Inspiration comes in many ways. For Stages Theatre Company’s Sandy Boren-Barrett, it came from a favorite book of her then-3-year-old daughter, who was given a copy of “Llama Llama Red Pajama.” “It’s ...

And now, for the first time, a professional Jewish educator has given the Hanukkah llama a deeply Jewish backstory, in an effort to endow a kitschy character with substance. “I think a lot about ...