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London theater will host Jewish film fest after all
Jewish Journal
August 15, 2014
A London theater that refused to host a Jewish film festival because of the event’s Israeli government funding has reversed course.\n
Surviving a Survivor
Jewish Journal
October 10, 2012
It’s an age-old, common dilemma faced by adult children of aging parents: What is the right thing to do when those parents begin to lose their faculties? That theme is at the heart of “Surviving Mama,” by playwright Sonia Levitin, which opens Oct. 12 at the Edgemar Center for the Arts in Santa Monica.
‘Jewtopia’s’ universal truths
Jewish Journal
September 27, 2012
David Katz knew minutes into watching Bryan Fogel’s “Jewtopia,” a star-studded independent film adapted from the hit comedic play about interfaith dating, that it would anchor his Malibu International Film Festival. Unfortunately, Katz had his epiphany at 3 a.m.
Director of Polish Jewish theater is attacked
Jewish Journal
December 22, 2010
Bricks painted with swastikas and a firecracker were thrown through the window of the director of a Jewish theater in Poland. The attack on the home of Thomas Pietrasiewicz, director of the NN Theater in Lublin, took place late at night on Dec. 17. A bottle had been thrown at the house a month earlier but had been dismissed as a prank, the Gazeta Wyborcza newspaper reported. The newspaper reported that the theater has been the victim of several anti-Semitic attacks in the past, including the painting of a Star of David on a gallows on the door, threatening letters and a container with a foul-smelling substance thrown in the building.
Theater: ‘A’ is for ‘angst’ when you’re the creators of ‘Avenue Q’
Naomi Pfefferman
September 9, 2007
The musical is \”how \’Friends\’ might be if it had Fozzie Bear and Miss Piggy arguing about their one-night stand but with more angst, expletives and full-on puppet sex,\” The Times of London said.\n
Debbie Friedman, L.A. Opera, Norman Mailer and David Mamet
Keren Engelberg
February 1, 2007
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Theater: Troy vs. ‘Tsuris’
Robert David Jaffee
December 14, 2006
When asked whether he is Jewish, Mark Troy responds, \”You will be needing proof of that?\”
No Rat King, no fairies — just one ‘MeshugaNutcracker’
Dan Pine
December 14, 2006
\”The MeshugaNutcracker!\” tells the tale of eight citizens of Chelm, the mythical shtetl of fools, who gather every year to perform at their Chanukah festival. Through the course of the two-act musical, each tells a story of Chanukah heroes from the time of the Maccabees through today.
Theater: All in the ‘Herbicide’ family
Hank Rosenfeld
December 7, 2006
\”Herb is this wonderful combination of New York savvy, old school wisdom and outrageous life experiences,\” Kaminoff says. \”Imagine Garrison Keillor, only if he was a handsome Jewish guy from Brooklyn.\”
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