\”If we don\’t change something now, if people don\’t open their eyes, we\’re not gonna have a world,\” said director Eva Minemar during a rehearsal with \”God of Vengeance,\” the classic Sholem Asch play.
Born-again Christian youth pastor Shari Putney is standing at the top of a stairway outside a theater in Hollywood presiding over a group of young adults, decked out in a sequined, pale-blue mother-of-the-bride dress and a huge diamond cross.
\”\’Jumor\’ is a look into our own culture through our elderly community,\” Aaron Krinsky said. \”The more homes we visited, the more we realized we were interested in the stories itself, not the comics who told them.\”
Two minutes into the interview, Bruce Vilanch kvetches about pantyhose. The hefty actor dons them eight times a week to play Edna Turnblad, the plus-size Baltimore hausfrau in the hit musical "Hairspray," now at the Pantages Theatre.
\”Homebody/Kabul\” is very much about people trying to erase their pasts through encounters with those who are different from them. Whether British or Afghan, Christian or Muslim, all the characters have a history created by colonialism that informs their present struggles.
Years before he directed the play version of "The Chosen" — now at the Miles Memorial Playhouse in Santa Monica — David Ellenstein was up for the starring role in the 1981 film of Chaim Potok\’s classic novel.
Singer-pianist-archivist Michael Feinstein\’s new album, his first with a symphony orchestra, is all standards and all Jewish.
Two Jewish pioneers of the popular culture, comedian Milton Berle and director Billy Wilder, died last week in Los Angeles.
Two of the great names in the American theater — Strasberg and Davidson — are joining talents to present a play about artistic loyalty and betrayal during the McCarthy era of the 1950s.
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