Eva Trieger

Eva Trieger

Eva Trieger is an educator and a freelance writer specializing in coverage of the arts.

Supplemental Program Helps Middle Schoolers on Road to Success

From the Talmud, we learn that a father is commanded to teach his children to swim. That seems a little random at first glance, but in fact, the message is that a parent must teach his children to survive independently when the time arises. A program outside of Atlanta, Georgia is doing just that and has been since 2001. Reach for Excellence has been providing a supplemental education to underserved middle school-aged children and their families. However, Reach is no ordinary program. [Eva Trieger]

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Eva Trieger, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Soille San Diego Hebrew Day School Promotes Mental Health and Psychological Wellbeing

By Eva Trieger SAN DIEGO — Soille San Diego Hebrew Day School is no stranger to facing challenges head-on. Now, celebrating its 60th anniversary, this remains a fact. With climbing numbers of adolescents dealing with mental health issues, this courageous faculty, led by Rabbi Simcha Weiser, has engaged Stuart Katz, a Hebrew Day alumnus (class

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Eva Trieger, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education

‘Extreme Home Makeover’ is a San Diego Theater’s Spin on Well-Known Reality TV Show

By Eva Trieger SAN DIEGO — Reality television shows were not born with “Fear Factor” or “The Bachelor,” yet somehow this genre opened new avenues for questionable entertainment. These shows piqued our curiosity and opened our eyes to how another sector lives. In 2004, ABC aired a show on the family channel entitled, “Extreme Makeover.”

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Eva Trieger, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

San Diego International Film Festival Runs the Gamut of Human Emotions

By Eva Trieger SAN DIEGO — If you’ve been holding your breath anticipating the return of the San Diego International Film Festival, it’s time to exhale. However, the depth and breadth of films will have you panting trying to keep up with the evocative array of human emotions. To learn more about the SDIFF 2022,

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Eva Trieger, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Jewish Motorcycle Philanthropists Support The Butterfly Project

Last month I had the delightful opportunity to interview two bikers who were planning to participate in the Ride2Remember, a motorcycle ride created to pay tribute to Holocaust survivors and memorialize those who perished. This year, the Jewish Motorcyclist Alliance dedicated its contribution to The Butterfly Project (TBP), cofounded by San Diegans Cheryl Rattner Price and Jan Landau. {Eva Trieger}

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The Poignant Dramas of Border Crossers

The current offering at La Jolla Playhouse attempts to provide unity and solidarity for those Latinos disenfranchised by politics and economics. Fandango for Butterflies (and Coyotes) celebrates the “joyous, inclusive spirit” that coexists along with the divisiveness and inequity facing immigrants. Through music and dance, audiences are let into the challenging and often harsh realities immigrants of so many Latin American countries have faced, while trying to gain access to America.  [Eva Trieger]

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Eva Trieger, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

‘The Mechanicals’ Features Summer Camp Nostalgia

By Eva Trieger CARLSBAD, California — Who doesn’t wax nostalgic for those halcyon days of summer camp? Even if there are snakes in the lake or bug juice or pit toilets, there is nothing that connotes summer vacation like a stint at a summer camp, replete with singalongs, poison ivy, and mosquito bites. New Village

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Eva Trieger, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Ride2Remember Brings Bikers and Holocaust Education to San Diego

By Eva Trieger SAN DIEGO — On September 2, 1939, much of the world was clueless that the Nazis had opened their first concentration camp to obliterate the Jews and Poles of Danzig, just after the outbreak of World War II. The camp, Stutthof, was in a marshy area where inmates were subjected to starvation,

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Eva Trieger, Holocaust, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education

Amid World Premiere in San Diego, ‘The Remarkable Mister Holmes’ Looks Broadway-Bound

By Eva Trieger What do you get when you combine the brilliance of actor/director/lyricist/playwright, Omri Schein with the actor/artistic director/heart of North Coast Repertory Theatre, David Ellenstein, with the “incredibly talented and joyously spirited cast” of The Remarkable Mister Holmes? A witty, delightful musical that is most assuredly Broadway-bound following this world premiere. Four years

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Eva Trieger, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

‘As You Like It’ Brings a Rare Treat to Life

By Eva Trieger SAN DIEGO — In 1621,  a tragedy befell England’s Fortune Theatre as it caught fire. However, just two years later, it rose from the ashes, but the actors became known as the Poor Companions. Award-winning actor, director, and producer Richard Baird took on the mantle of Artistic Director of Poor Players Theatre

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Eva Trieger, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

The Saga of a Boy with a Congenitally Broken Heart

Congenital heart disease is not rare and affects 1 in 110 babies with varying degrees of severity. Treatment options offered to Sarah and Matt Hammitt were compassionate care, a full heart transplant, or three surgeries intended to extend Bowen’s life. A documentary, feature-length film, Bowen’s Heart, reveals the challenges, fears, and hopes of Bowen, his three siblings, and his parents. The Hammitt family and the co-directors of the film, Lexi and Zach Read, sought to develop awareness, empathy and support for families living with chronic illness. Their goal was most certainly achieved. [Eva Trieger]

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Eva Trieger, Science, Medicine, & Education, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

‘Lempicka’ Boldly Tackles a Climate of Upheaval

By Eva Trieger LA JOLLA, California — Artistic Director Christopher Ashley hit the nail squarely on the head when he compared our current climate of “upheaval” to the era in which La Jolla Playhouse’s latest show, Lempicka, is set. He juxtaposed “Russia’s war of aggression on Ukraine, and our own domestic threats to LGBTQ+ rights

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Eva Trieger, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast