Calendar

By Keren Engelberg
Published on February 10, 2005

Calendar.

Calendar

By Keren Engelberg
Published on November 18, 2004

Calendar

A Triangle of ‘Talking’

By Tom Tugend
Published on April 29, 2004

At one point in the Taper Forum play "The Talking Cure," Sigmund Freud warns the young Carl Gustav Jung not to needlessly stir up the enemies of psychoanalytic theory.

New UJ ‘Tradition’ Starts

By Leora Alhadeff
Published on April 29, 2004

Tevye, Tzeitel, Golde and all the other memorable characters of "Fiddler on the Roof" graced the big screen at the University of Judaism (UJ) on Sunday, April 25, but it was the audience who stole the show.

The Circuit

By Gaby Wenig
Published on April 1, 2004

The Circuit

Q & A With Jewtopia Creators Bryan Fogel and Sam Wolfson

By Amy Klein
Published on January 22, 2004

I'm standing in the foyer of the Coast Playhouse in West Hollywood talking to Bryan Fogel, the co-writer/co-producer/co-star of "Jewtopia" -- a play that parodies dating, JDating, interdating, rabbis, Passover seders, Purim, Chanukah bushes, bar mitzvahs, shofar blowing, other types of blowing, goyim, Asian fixations, synagogue memberships and, most of all, Jewish women and their overbearing mothers -- when this overbearing Jewish mother shamelessly accosts Fogel outside his dressing room to peddle her daughter to him.

Peace No Joke To Comics

By Naomi Pfefferman
Published on July 17, 2003

Clean Comedians, a comedy booking agency, has a "no-gross-out" policy: no gender-bashing, racist remarks, obscenity, sexually explicit material or swearing. A sixth prohibition -- no divisive politics -- graces its "Comedy for Peace" event, featuring a Jewish and a Palestinian comic at the Doubletree Hotel in Santa Monica on Sunday, Aug. 3. The goal is to raise $10,000 to send Israeli and Arab youths to a conflict resolution camp run by the Seeds of Peace organization.

7 Days In Arts

Published on May 15, 2003

7 Days In The Arts

7 Days In Arts

By Keren Engelberg
Published on January 30, 2003

Leo Marmol and Ron Radziner, a Cuban American and a Jewish American (respectively), are "the hottest young architects in Los Angeles," according to The New York Times Magazine.

7 Days In Arts

Published on June 27, 2002

7 Days In The arts

Code Name: Hero

By Michael Aushenker
Published on July 5, 2001

Ben Donenberg says his Shakespeare productions are a lot like Reconstructionist Judaism -- both give the past a vote, but not a veto.