performances Archives – Jewish Journal

Calendar

Keren Engelberg November 18, 2004

Calendar

A Triangle of ‘Talking’

Tom Tugend April 29, 2004

At one point in the Taper Forum play "The Talking Cure," Sigmund Freud warns the young Carl Gustav Jung not to needlessly stir up the enemies of psychoanalytic theory.

Tevye, Tzeitel, Golde and all the other memorable characters of "Fiddler on the Roof" graced the big screen at the University of Judaism (UJ) on Sunday, April 25, but it was the audience who stole the show.

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.

Peace No Joke To Comics

Naomi Pfefferman July 17, 2003

Clean Comedians, a comedy booking agency, has a \”no-gross-out\” policy: no gender-bashing, racist remarks, obscenity, sexually explicit material or swearing. A sixth prohibition — no divisive politics — graces its \”Comedy for Peace\” event, featuring a Jewish and a Palestinian comic at the Doubletree Hotel in Santa Monica on Sunday, Aug. 3. The goal is to raise $10,000 to send Israeli and Arab youths to a conflict resolution camp run by the Seeds of Peace organization.