Enough Is Enough: Play About Mideast Conflict Is Timely
Dikla Kadosh
January 22, 2009
Iris Bahr’s “Dai” (Hebrew for “Enough”), a one-woman play about 10 people at a Tel Aviv cafe moments before a suicide bombing.
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Theater
Questions, Dilemmas Drive Geffen-Commissioned Play
Rachel Heller
January 22, 2009
When the Geffen Playhouse commissioned a new piece from Donald Margulies five years ago, the award-winning playwright bided his time.
Tovah Feldshuh immortalizes life of young Shoah heroine in ‘Irena’s Vow’
Jewish Journal
November 20, 2008
\”Irena\’s Vow\” is the story of Irena Gut Opdyke, a young Polish Catholic woman who took unimaginable risks and paid an unspeakable personal price to save the lives of 12 Jews by hiding them in the basement of the villa where she was virtually enslaved by a German major during World War II.
‘Accidental Mexican’ Ilan Stavans probes cultural identity in first play
Rachel Heller
October 10, 2008
As an \”accidental Mexican\” born to an Eastern European family, author and essayist Ilan Stavans has hurdled critics to become one of the nation\’s foremost commentators on Latino culture. As a Mexican American, he has written widely on immigration, the clash and fusion of languages and the quest for acceptance.
Emily Stern — Howard Stern’s daughter — on stage and off
Naomi Pfefferman
September 29, 2008
As a child, Emily first performed in the choir at her Reform temple in Roslyn, N.Y., where she sang at children\’s services and Jewish camp. She continued to perform in high school; but studying acting at New York University did not mesh well with her intuitive approach to theater, she said.
Robert Schimmel: Cancer, through a lens comedic
Naomi Pfefferman
September 25, 2008
He realized that even though he had just been told he had cancer, he hadn\’t been told he was going to die. To prove it, he was going to do the one thing that showed he was very much alive, which was to make people laugh.
Women plot revenge against a sexist ’70s boss in ‘9 to 5: The Musical’ (what a way to make a livin’)
Shoshana Lewin Fischer
September 11, 2008
\”It seems that in a musical you would get to know people less — I actually think you get to know them more\” — Patricia Resnick, writer of \”9 to 5\”
Even up close, Minkin’s illusions are magical
Dikla Kadosh
August 21, 2008
\”I want to make people think and feel a range of emotions —wonder, surprise, nostalgia, delight.\”
Deferred dream comes true for actress Nan Tepper
Tom Tugend
August 7, 2008
\”I had been a student, wife, mother, news executive and caregiver, but I had always promised myself that one day I would be an actor.\”
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