‘The Last Five Years’ pulls heart strings
When most people think of musical theatre, they think of large casts with full orchestras, glitzy dance numbers and a love story with a happy ending. That is not this story. Jason Robert Brown’s The...
‘Bluish’ concert features Jews and African-Americans
From the creative muse of Yale Strom comes another concert with the intriguing title, “BLUEISH: JEWS AND THE BLUES.”
The multi-talented Strom, scholar-in-residence at SDSU’s Judaic Studies Department, has brought concerts combining his klezmer forces...
Men Drool as Women Rule in New Play
Bad Hombres, Good Wives, a delightful new comedy at the San Diego Repertory Theater, is a cheeky take on Northern Mexico’s narco culture and the relationship between men and women. Written by Playwright in...
Yiddish in der Suke – Yiddish in the Sukkah
To celebrate the festival of Sukkot, YAAANA is teaming up with Urban Kibbutz San Diego to present Yiddish in der Suke (Yiddish in the Sukkah). Come visit a Yiddish Sukkah and learn more about the Urban Kibbutz initiative: https://urbankibbutz.com We will...
Anastasia fills our dreams
Don’t we all fantasize about being someone else?
Doesn’t every little girl like to play princess, dressing up in gowns and tiaras?
What if that childish fantasy was once your reality?
I first heard the story of...
Noura and the problems of immigrant families
Jews of Eastern European ancestry are all too familiar with the pogroms that forcibly removed their forebears from their homes in the 1800s and continued through the Holocaust. However, Jews don’t hold the exclusive...
‘Fiddler’ pulls heart strings at San Diego’s Civic Theatre
There was an obvious division in the house on Wednesday night at a performance of Fiddler on the Roof at the Civic Theatre downtown.
There were those in the packed audience who never had seen the musical...
Play review: ‘My Ex- Step- Mother- in- Law’
Actually, the one-woman show of the above title that I saw last week has very little to do with the subject of the title, namely, mothers-in-law. I am one such, and even an ex-one...
An opera about Auschwitz!?
I was one of the brave souls who attended a performance of the opera, The Passenger’ by Mieczyslaw Weinberg. I did so mainly because a friend of ours was the revival director of the production...
Off Broadway Play about Famous Nazi Hunter Simon Wiesenthal Debuts in Marietta
(Atlanta, GA) March 14, 2019 The critically acclaimed off-Broadway play Wiesenthal is coming to the Earl and Rachel Smith Strand Theater in Marietta on May 29th for a series of seven performances.
Wiesenthal, a one-man...