‘Desert Rock Garden:’ A Landmark Piece of History With the Full Array of Emotions
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...
Mandy Patinkin Headlines San Diego’s ‘JFest’ June 4
Broadway’s master songman, Mandy Patinkin, accompanied by Adam Ben-David on piano, will bring his newest theatre concert Mandy Patinkin in Concert: BEING ALIVE, to Balboa Theatre on Tuesday, June 4 at 7:30 p.m. This powerful...
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...
You may go nuts over ‘Squirrels’
LA JOLLA, California — Sure, we’ve all seen actors warming up by reciting tongue twisters or singing scales to loosen up their vocal cords, doing yoga poses or lunges to limber up and get their...
Day Two: STM Presents “Hanukke Oy Hanukke a Yom Tev a Sheiner”
Kippalive - Al HaNisim כיפה-לייב על הניסים
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7MXDlPg_LI
‘Mixed Marriage,’ a one-act play
Written after the contentious election in 2016, my one-act play Mixed Marriage was a winner in the 4th Annual SDC JCC Five Minute Shorts and has even more relevance today.
It all started when I heard of...
‘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...
Music of Shabbat to Soothe the Troubled Heart
If music can soothe the troubled heart, the music of Shabbat may be particularly effective with its prayer chants for peace, for healing, and for the departed.
The next Treasures from the Music Collection of...
Felder’s ‘Before Fiddler’ Highlights Music of Sholem Aleichem Era
Hershey Felder continues to stream one-man shows from his current residence in Florence, Italy. Among his many portrayals of famous composers such as Beethoven, Chopin, Tchaikowsky and Debussy, he also featured three great Jewish...
Award-winning Broadway shows: Stories of painful Jewish history resonate amid rising hatred of Jews
“Eight times a week, I watch a Jewish man get lynched on Broadway.” — “Parade” actress Micaela Diamond
Two antisemitism-themed Broadway plays, “Parade” and “Leopoldstadt,” both recently won several Tony Awards. They portray how deep-seated anti-Jewish hostility combined with...