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‘Noises Off’ brings you behind the scenes of a comedy

April 26, 2018

By Eva Trieger CORONADO, California — Noises Off, the British play-within-a-play, was conceived by writer Michael Frayn in 1970, as he watched Vanessa Redgrave from the wings, perform in a show he authored. What he discovered was that the play was much funnier from off-stage and so he created this clever idea for his British […]

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‘Evening with Groucho’ brings back funnyman Marx

April 25, 2018

By Eva Trieger SOLANA BEACH, California — A delighted North Coast Repertory Theater audience watched in amazement Tuesday night, as Frank Ferrante became funnyman Groucho Marx. Before our very eyes, Ferrante painted on his mustache, donned rimmed glasses and adopted the familiar Noo Yawk accent in his lightning quick banter. The ninety-minute show recalled Marx

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Eva Trieger, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Trivia, Humor & Satire

Actress persists, career now on rise

April 20, 2018

By Eva Trieger SOLANA BEACH, California — While Professor Harold Hill may have been a part of Tanna Frederick’s formative years, the college graduate who left Iowa, was bound for glory in New York or Los Angeles where she just knew stardom was awaiting her. However, her road to Los Angeles wasn’t paved with gold, and

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Eva Trieger, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Lesbian vs. frum choice in new movie

April 20, 2018

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Come April 27, Disobedience will open in movie theaters across the country. I think a better title might be Restraint. It is the story of Ronit, the daughter of an Orthodox rabbi, banished from her British community because she was discovered having a lesbian affair with a neighbor

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Find your lost soul with The Wanderers

April 18, 2018

By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — “Who really understands whether or not they are happy?” How do you know when you’ve found your bashert, the soulmate you were destined to share your life with? Some say you just know. But how do you find that one special person? Do you really have to share

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San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Soul Doctor will mend your broken heart

April 12, 2018

Raise your voice up and prepare to mend a broken heart. –Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — Welcome to The House of Love and Prayer where klezmer mixes with wild, invigorating drumming. Hippies dressed in yoga pants and adorned with love beads are freestyle dancing around a pretty groovy-looking ark. Hey,

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Eric George Tauber, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Welcome to Beachtown

April 2, 2018

By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — Happy Time Capsule Day! As you enter the lobby of the Lyceum, you may be greeted by Mayor Steve, Beachtown’s hip new mayor -who loves to surf and wears sandals with his powder blue suit- or any one of the charming “Beachtonians.” Unlike other theatre experiences in which

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Eric George Tauber, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

It takes ten to tango

April 2, 2018

By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson JERUSALEM — The ad in the paper for the show entitled “Tango in the Shadows” caught my eye, and since Yigal and I have long been aficionados of the tango in every shape and form we decided to buy tickets for the performance in Jerusalem. The fact that the event fell exactly on

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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Bronco Billy, movies’ first cowboy hero, was Jewish

March 29, 2018

By Jerry Klinger LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas — Max Henry Aronson was born March 21, 1880 at 813 Center Street, in Little Rock, Arkansas. He was known as Max, sometimes, Gilbert, and not so often Henry, for a little more than twenty years of his life. Until he died in 1971, at 91,

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Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Waltzing through A Little Night Music

March 16, 2018

“If I were perfect for you, wouldn’t you tire of me?” By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — The onslaught of information –and misinformation- in our digital age has us escaping into the past, specifically the turn of the twentieth century. That’s why Masterpiece Classics like Downton Abbey enjoyed such a devoted following. They let

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Eric George Tauber, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Janet Tiger play to be showcased May 4

March 12, 2018

SAN DIEGO (SDJW) — Jewish community member Janet Tiger will be among seven playwrights whose works will be presented May 4th, at 7:30 p.m. as the Scripteasers celebrates seven decades of new plays at its 70th Anniversary Showcase at Holy Trinity Anglican Church, 2051 Sunset Cliffs Blvd. Mitch Feingold, another Jewish community member who is

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San Diego Calendar, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

$11,000 in grants encourage arts in schools

March 8, 2018

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) – Fourteen teachers from the San Diego Unified School District have been awarded a combined $11,000 in grants to pursue artistic projects with their students thanks to the new non-profit VAPA (Visual and Performing Arts) Foundation. The newly established Foundation awarded teacher grants ranging from $500 to $2,500 during this inaugural

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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Science, Medicine, & Education, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

‘Oh, Lucy,’ cultural, familial clash on display

March 8, 2018

By Pamela Pollack-Fremd LA MESA, California — Honesty is not always the best policy. Or so that appears to be true in the Japanese film written by Atuko Hirayamagi and Boris Frumin. Ms. Hirayamagi also directed the film. Setsuko/Lucy (Shinobu Kutsuma ) is a dissatisfied middle aged office worker/tea lady. She is alienated from her

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Theatre, Film & Broadcast

‘Soul Doctor,’ story of Shlomo Carlebach, opens April 3

March 5, 2018

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — You don’t have to be Jewish to love Shlomo — but it helps. The biographical musical Soul Doctor tells the incredible story of real-life “singing rabbi” Shlomo Carlebach and his unlikely friendship with Nina Simone, the high priestess of soul. A smash hit off Broadway, this spirited San Diego production begins

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