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Theater
Latina Jews put stories onstage
Roberto Loiederman
May 11, 2016
During a recent Jewish Women’s Theatre (JWT) rehearsal, a young actress reads a solo scene from a show that’s about to open.
Nazi menace overtakes siblings in different ways in ‘My Sister’
Jewish Journal
February 3, 2016
In addition to exterminating millions of Jews, the Nazis also targeted the mentally and physically disabled under their eugenics program, aimed at weeding out people they considered genetically unfit.
Theater, apartheid and a director’s Jewish roots
Jewish Journal
November 24, 2015
“I’ve been very fortunate through most of my adult life to be able to have earned a living in the art form that I love,” Simon Levy, producing director of the Fountain Theatre in East Hollywood, commented during a recent interview.
Chat rooms, seniors and modern love in ‘Romance.com’
Jewish Journal
October 28, 2015
Senior dating in the digital age is the comically rendered theme of “Romance.com,” a production of the West Coast Jewish Theatre at the Pico Playhouse in West Los Angeles.
‘Paloma’ examines interfaith relationships
Jewish Journal
June 11, 2015
Playwright Anne García-Romero, talking about her latest work, “Paloma,” said three of the world’s major religions are represented by the three main characters.
Rebecca Pidgeon’s Artistic and Religious Journey
Naomi Pfefferman
May 7, 2015
“It’s been exhausting,” Rebecca Pidgeon said of starring in David Mamet’s dialogue-heavy, two-woman play, “The Anarchist,” at Theatre Asylum through May 23. Pidgeon, who is married to the Pulitzer Prize-winning Mamet (“Glengarry Glen Ross,” “American Buffalo”), plays a prison warden tasked with deciding whether a Weather Underground-type terrorist incarcerated for 35 years now deserves parole.
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