Theatre, Film & Broadcast

‘Hamlet’ Haters Beware: This Comedy May Change Your Minds

Though the Bard is regaled and celebrated as a most prolific playwright and sonnet producer, not everybody is a fan!  I Hate Hamlet, Lamplighters Community Theatre’s delightful comedy, exposes why not everyone adores his 38 scripts. This comedy will reach every funny bone with its clever dialogue, quirky humor and time travel. [Eva Trieger]

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Eva Trieger, San Diego County, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

A Lesson for Indigenous People’s Day/ Columbus Day

Today, the second Monday in October, is known as “Indigenous People’s Day” which honors the native people whose communities, health and culture were decimated by Europeans who arrived on ships to “discover” the New World. [Cailin Acosta]

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Cailin Acosta, International, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, San Diego County, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

‘Nobody Wants This’ Trades in Stereotypes of Jewish Women

Bina Roklov, her daughter-in-law Miriam, Miriam’s friends, and Rebecca the ex-girlfriend, are all portrayed in stereotypes and tropes of Jewish women as toxic: the overbearing mother, manipulative, materialistic and status-conscious, dishonest, secretive, a religious hypocrite, nagging and critical. [Barrett Holman Leak]

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Antisemitism, Barrett Holman Leak, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Podcast Details a Family’s Fight Against Hereditary Cancer

Before We Go is an eight-episode podcast, starting today, Oct. 8, in which Dr. Shoshana Ungerleider, an internist, tells of her father’s Steven’s fight against pancreatic cancer. Meanwhile, she and her sister faced the decision of whether to decrease their chances of suffering a similar fate by having hysterectomies and removal of their breasts. [Donald H. Harrison]

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California, Donald H. Harrison, Obituaries & memorials, Science, Medicine, & Education, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

‘Primary Trust’ Is a Thoughtful Play About Neuro-Divergence

The very quick version of the plot is that a 38-year- old neuro-diverse Kenneth (Caleb Everhardt) loses the job he’s had at a bookstore for 20 years. He breaks up with his imaginary friend (James Udom) as he starts a new job working at a bank and encounters elements of the real world for the first time.  He befriends a waitress (Rebecca S’manga Frank) at his favorite bar and starts to interact more with real-life people.  [Sandi Masori]

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Sandi Masori, Science, Medicine, & Education, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Todd Salovey on Getting More Jewish Stories to the Stage

They take the script to various theaters to see if there’s any interest.  If a theater expresses interest in it, then they offer the theater what’s called an “enhancement fee” towards production costs. This is money that offsets the costs of producing it as a part of the theater’s regular season.  [Sandi Masori]

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San Diego County, Sandi Masori, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Although It Was Just a Reading, It Had Lage Emotional Impact

Back in the beginning of the summer I had the opportunity to attend a Jewish Italian culture night through San Diego JFest. Part of that event was a reading of an excerpt of Ali Viterbi’s play In Every Generation.  In that reading, Marco Barricelli and his real-life wife Beatrice Basso read the parts of Davide and Paola in the scene that depicts them as post-World War II, newly-married immigrants to America, exploring their new freedom to publicly practice Judaism without fear of pogroms or Nazis. [Sandi Masori]

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Jewish Fiction, San Diego County, Sandi Masori, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Britain’s Sky News’ Reporter’s Bias is Obvious in Wake of IDF’s Incursion into Lebanon

In the wake of the IDF’s incursion into Lebanon, accompanied by its advice to residents there to leave in order to avoid civilian casualties, the far-from-objective Sky News correspondent bewailed the exodus of the population there after having ignored the similar fate suffered by tens of thousands of Israelis in the north of Israel for the past year. [Dorothea Shefer-Vanson]

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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Israel, Middle East, News Media, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Iran Fires Missiles at Israel; Vance and Walz Debate Which U.S. Presidential Candidates Better Suited to Handle Global Emergencies

Vice presidential candidates J.D. Vance, left, and Tim Walz faced off Tuesday evening in a debate moderated by CBS reporters Margaret Brennan and Norah O'Donnell. (Screen grab from CBS broadcast)

The two major party candidates for the vice presidency of the United States — Democrat Tim Walz and Republican J.D. Vance — met each other on a CBS stage for their first and thus far only scheduled debate.  The first question from reporters Margaret Brennan and Norah O’Donnell demanded to know if they would support Israel launching a preemptive strike on Iran. [Donald H. Harrison]

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Donald H. Harrison, Israel, News Media, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Prejudice Is More than We Think It Is

Prejudice is defined as a preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or experience. It is favoring or disliking something without good reason. It is irrational. It destroys people, both the person feeling and doing it and the person or group affected by it. [Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin]

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Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr., Jewish Religion, Opinion, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA