#myLAcommute My favorite flowers are daisies
Jewish Journal
August 19, 2015
#myLAcommute asks locals where they\’re coming from, where they\’re going and why.
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broadway
Two literary giants, a lawsuit and Dick Cavett
Jewish Journal
January 28, 2015
It was the talk of the literary and legal worlds in the early 1980s.
From Broadway to cantor, Mike Stein competes on NBC’s ‘The Voice’
Jewish Journal
September 17, 2014
Chazzan Mike Stein never really considered himself a singer, but rather, he said, an instrumentalist who sings.
Will Larry David’s Broadway show add to his Jewish file?
Jewish Journal
August 12, 2014
In Larry David’s fake real-life world on the HBO sitcom “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” he is tapped by Mel Brooks to take over the Zero Mostel-Nathan Lane role of Max Bialystock in the megahit Broadway adaptation of “The Producers.”\n
Theodore Bikel’s 90th birthday celebration
Avishay Artsy
June 25, 2014
How do you celebrate the 90th birthday of a man who has had a major impact on American film, television, theater, music and social activism?
His gentle, Jewish humor is again Crystal clear in ‘700 Sundays’
Jewish Journal
April 16, 2014
After two sellout runs on Broadway — nine years apart — as well as a book and a successful world tour, actor and comic Billy Crystal brings his one-man, autobiographical play, “700 Sundays,” to television via HBO on April 19.
You can’t take it with you?
Jewish Journal
January 23, 2014
After a successful eight-and-a-half month run off-Broadway in 2009, “Don’t Leave It All to Your Children,” a musical-comedy revue aimed at encouraging the older generation to live life to the fullest, has recently opened at the Whitefire Theatre in Sherman Oaks.
Calendar Dec 14-20
Laura Donney
December 11, 2013
Shmuel Tikvah, a young Nigerian, heard time and time again about the Igbo people, who claim descent from ancient Israelites. Research at an Internet cafe leads him on a quest to find this Nigerian Jewish community, which keeps kosher, lights Shabbat candles and prays in Hebrew.
Calendar: Nov. 22-29, 2012
Ryan Torok
November 21, 2012
Pulitzer Prize finalist Jon Robin Baitz’s first Broadway play unfolds in Palm Springs on Erev Christmas.
‘Modigliani’ paints moving portrait of tormented artist
Jewish Journal
April 25, 2012
An artist’s angst over personal demons and the vicissitudes of the marketplace is depicted with a mixture of humor and pathos in the upcoming revival of “Modigliani” at the Open Fist Theatre in Hollywood.
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