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Finding ‘Jewtopia’
Jewish Journal
September 19, 2013
I sat somewhere between anxious and bored in my seat, picking at the polyester threads as they unraveled from the sleeve of my robe. One after one, my classmates were called to the bimah, and in the same sing-song cadence of their bar or bat mitzvah speeches, they started their presentations which all began (at the direction of our teacher) “I am a Jew because … ”.
Little-known stories live large on screen
Jewish Journal
September 6, 2013
Several tales largely unknown to mainstream audiences are brought to the fore in many of this fall’s cinematic offerings.
‘Jewtopia’s’ universal truths
Jewish Journal
September 27, 2012
David Katz knew minutes into watching Bryan Fogel’s “Jewtopia,” a star-studded independent film adapted from the hit comedic play about interfaith dating, that it would anchor his Malibu International Film Festival. Unfortunately, Katz had his epiphany at 3 a.m.
Jennifer Love Hewitt cast in ‘Jewtopia’ movie
Jewish Journal
July 19, 2011
Jennifer Love Hewitt was cast in a leading role for a movie version of \”Jewtopia.\”
Shorter, Snappier ‘Jewtopia’ Returns to L.A. Stage
Naomi Pfefferman
July 7, 2010
Everything was at stake for Bryan Fogel before “Jewtopia,” the comedy he wrote and starred in with Sam Wolfson, opened at the Coast Playhouse in May 2003 and became a runaway hit.
Choice of a Jew generation
Jewish Journal
October 26, 2006
\”Jewtopia: The Chosen Book for the Chosen People\”
Q & A With Jewtopia Creators Bryan Fogel and Sam Wolfson
Amy Klein
January 22, 2004
I\’m standing in the foyer of the Coast Playhouse in West Hollywood talking to Bryan Fogel, the co-writer/co-producer/co-star of \”Jewtopia\” — a play that parodies dating, JDating, interdating, rabbis, Passover seders, Purim, Chanukah bushes, bar mitzvahs, shofar blowing, other types of blowing, goyim, Asian fixations, synagogue memberships and, most of all, Jewish women and their overbearing mothers — when this overbearing Jewish mother shamelessly accosts Fogel outside his dressing room to peddle her daughter to him.
O.C. Finds Itself in a State of ‘Jewtopia’
Naomi Pfefferman
July 3, 2003
The hit play \”Jewtopia\” began when Sam Wolfson and Bryan Fogel envisioned two guys at a temple singles mixer with \”Hava Nagila\” pumping. \”We decided the gentile was there because he likes Jewish girls, and the Jew was there because of family pressure,\” Fogel said.
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