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Friday, March 29, 2024

‘Witnesses’ Brings Voices of Teenage Holocaust Victims Back to Life

The musical Witnesses was conceived by Jordan Beck a decade ago, after his reading of Jacob Boas’ book, We Are Witnesses: Five Diaries of Teenagers Who Died In the Holocaust. Of the five diarists quoted in the...

5 Minute Plays Delightfully Kick Off Summer Theater Season

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Last night an eager and appreciative audience gathered for the 7th Annual 5 Minute Play Festival. Thanks to COVID-19, the program had been put on hold since 2020. Normally a slate of ten plays...

‘Iron’ Locks Onto Mother-Daughter Relationships Under Stress

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The news has been pretty bleak this week for San Diego area theaters with the closing of the REP, but that should only reaffirm your commitment to come out to support our local gems....

‘In Every Generation:’ Playwright Ali Viterbi Out to Show That Jewish Stories Are Worth...

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Ali Viterbi has been on my radar ever since I attended my first performance of Women of Valor at the San Diego Repertory Theatre. Viterbi co-authored that play with Artistic Director Todd Salovey, Leah Salovey, Sarah...

‘Poets of the Past’ Set for May 16 in San Diego

Brilliant Israeli poet and song lyricist, Avraham Shlonsky (1900-1973), and German-born Jewish Nobel Prize-winning poet, Nelly Sachs (1891-1970), will have their poetry read this coming Monday evening, May 16, 7 p.m. on Zoom. This...
The play, currently in theaters around Israel, is based on Mandell’s book of the same name reflecting on the aftermath of the day when the bodies of her 13-year-old son Koby and his 14-year-old friend Yosef Ishran were found beaten and battered in a cave near their homes in the Gush Etzion community of Tekoa. Credit: Karen Feldman.

‘The Blessing of a Broken Heart’ comes home: Sherri Mandell’s 2003 classic is brought...

“There is nothing as whole as a broken heart.” — Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Kotsk Some types of pain never end. Sure, the sharp stab in the heart fades as life in all its complexity roars...

‘Desert Rock Garden:’ A Landmark Piece of History With the Full Array of Emotions

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I believe I was in my final years of high school or perhaps even early years of college when I first learned of the Japanese internment camps. What horrified me most of all was one...

National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene announces full cast and creative team of ‘Harmony: A New...

National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene (NYTF) today announced the entire cast and creative team for Harmony: A New Musical, starring musical theatre icons Chip Zien (Into the Woods, Caroline, Or Change) and Sierra Boggess (The Little Mermaid, The Phantom of the Opera). Harmony was...

Israeli Cellist Nahar Eliaz Set for San Diego Encore

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The last live classical music I heard before COVID isolation set in was the cello recital of 13-year old Israeli cellist Nahar Eliaz on March 4, 2020, at Congregation Beth Am. In my review for San...

Tel Aviv Opera Produces a Truly Magical ‘Magic Flute’Dorot

A performance of ‘The Magic Flute’ in the evening led us to spend a day in Tel Aviv, enjoying the view of the sea from the restaurant on the sun-drenched promenade, partaking of the...