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Theater: Davidson’s retirement leads to ‘Lessons’

Tom Tugend November 16, 2007

Gordon Davidson is back where he belongs, in the director\’s chair. The man whose name is practically synonymous with Los Angeles theater, who raised the city\’s reputation from a provincial backwater to the breeding ground for innovative and controversial plays, retired in the summer of 2005 as founding artistic director of the Center Theatre Group. Now he has resumed his craft, not at the Mark Taper Forum, the site of many of his triumphs and some failures for 38 seasons, but at the more modest venue of the Strasberg Creative Center\’s Marilyn Monroe Theatre in West Hollywood.\n

Sex and The 30-Something Professional

Robert David Jaffee April 6, 2007

Before David Rouda became a stage director and writer, he was an internationally ranked rower who placed 17th in the 1999 World Rowing Championships. Rouda, who started training as a sculler at 13, won six Gold Medals at the Maccabee Games and just missed qualifying for the 2000 Olympics.

Jack Bender: ‘Lost’ and ‘Found’

Keren Engelberg August 24, 2006

TV veteran Jack Bender will attend the Emmy Awards this Sunday. He\’s nominated again this year in the category of Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series for his work on the hit ABC show \”Lost,\” for which he is also an executive producer.

Education Giant Simha Lainer, 100

Jewish Journal August 3, 2006

From establishing funds through the Jewish Community Foundation in Los Angeles to starting the Simha and Sara Lainer Fund for Jewish Education through the BJE of Greater Los Angeles to supporting Israel, Lainer and Sara were key supporters of the Jewish community.

‘Superman’ Director Lives Out His Dream

Robert David Jaffee June 22, 2006

Bryan Singer\’s first real understanding of evil came when, as a boy of 9 or 10, he dressed up as a Nazi one day while playing a World War II game with his German neighbors in Princeton Junction, N.J. He came home wearing a swastika.

Singer\’s mother admonished him, but it wasn\’t until a few years later, when his junior high school teacher, Miss Fiscarelli, taught an entire unit in social studies on the Holocaust, that he gained a greater understanding as to why his mother had been so troubled. That class changed Singer\’s \”whole perception of what people are capable of anywhere,\” he said.

Schools Give Prum-Hess High Marks

Julie Gruenbaum Fax June 8, 2006

Miriam Prum-Hess, an experienced and admired Federation executive, took on a new role working on behalf of day schools last year, an effort to increase the level of professionalism and efficiency in all nonacademic areas. She has become the central address for day schools looking for expertise on operational issues — fundraising strategies, legal advice, business decisions, purchasing, and human resources.

‘Steins’ Skewers Simcha Rivalry

Tom Tugend April 27, 2006

\”Keeping Up With the Steins\” proves that you don\’t have to be Jewish to make a funny, insider Jewish film, or that if you grow up in the Bronx or went to school in North Hollywood, you become a Jew by osmosis.

9/11 Museum Head Uses Shoah Lessons

Matthew E. Berger April 27, 2006

For more than two decades, Alice Greenwald has been helping to give people a palpable understanding of the Holocaust through her work with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington.

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