The mishegoss of mom, shmaltz-free
Jewish Journal
May 8, 2013
Anybody who has trod the boards knows that little blitz of stage fright that can flood through an actor when a member of the family is in the audience.
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theatre
Calendar Picks and Clicks: Dec. 15-21, 2012
Ryan Torok
December 12, 2012
Set in 1930s Algiers, this animated adaptation of the beloved series by French comic-book artist Joann Sfar tells the story of a widowed rabbi, his beautiful daughter and a cat that swallows the family parrot and gains the ability to speak.
A playwright’s work wrestles with doing the right thing
Jewish Journal
August 29, 2012
The situation created by writer David Gow in his two-character play, \”Cherry Docs,\” is virtually guaranteed to produce explosive drama. A skinhead facing trial for a racially motivated murder is being defended by a Jewish publicly appointed attorney. The cherry docs of the title refer to the steel-toed cherry-colored Doc Marten combat boots the youth wore when he repeatedly kicked his victim.
Shlomo Carlebach’s life comes to the stage in ‘Soul Doctor’
Jewish Journal
August 14, 2012
As he researched the complex life of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach for a new musical, playwright Daniel Wise found a surprisingly candid source.
Jesse Eisenberg writes Holocaust-themed play
Jewish Journal
July 3, 2012
Actor Jesse Eisenberg has written a play revolving around the Holocaust.
‘The Exorcist’ at the Geffen: No green vomit, but plenty of evil
Naomi Pfefferman
June 27, 2012
William Peter Blatty was a Georgetown University student in August 1949 when he came across a front-page story in the Washington Post titled “Priest Frees Mt. Rainier Boy Reported Held in Devil’s Grip.” Blatty, a devout Catholic, was fascinated by the accounts of the 14-year-old’s bed violently shaking and torrents of curses in Latin whenever the exorcist commanded the demon to leave the boy.
In bed with Roy Cohn
Jewish Journal
February 23, 2012
The notorious attorney Roy Cohn (Barry Pearl), onetime counsel for Sen. Joseph McCarthy, deals with his demons in Joan Beber’s surreal play, “Hunger: In Bed With Roy Cohn,” currently running at the Odyssey Theatre. Beber, who is having her first production in Los Angeles at age 78, places Cohn in a state of limbo, a purgatory of the mind, where he is nurtured by a sexy maid (Presciliana Esparolini) and haunted by significant figures from his past, including his mother, Dora (Cheryl David); hotel heir G. David Schine (Tom Galup); Ronald Reagan (David Sessions); Barbara Walters (Liza de Weerd), who remained a loyal friend because Cohn had once helped her father; and convicted spy Julius Rosenberg (Jon Levenson).
C’mon, Amanda Green, ‘Bring It On’
Naomi Pfefferman
September 6, 2011
At one point in “Bring It On: The Musical,” inspired by the rival cheerleading film of the same name, Bridget, the team’s chubby mascot, gets some moxie from a pep talk about a boy she likes.
China’s obsession with Hitler
Jewish Journal
August 29, 2011
A Chinese Hitler, dressed like a mall cop, mopes in an underground bunker in 1945 as his empire is collapsing around him. But it’s not all bad news. “My stomach hurts, and it’s bigger. I’m pregnant!” Hitler exclaims, stroking himself mindlessly.
At Beit T’Shuvah, they sing a song of ‘Freedom’
Julie Gruenbaum Fax
April 13, 2011
“How long must I roam, to find my way home …”
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