British director Tyrone Guthrie, a non-Jew, once said: \”If all the Jews were to leave the American theater, it would close down about next Thursday.\”\nMaybe that explains why there\’s so much Jewish theater now in Los Angeles. Here\’s a roundup of the offerings: We can\’t guarantee they\’re good, but we can guarantee they\’re Jewish.
Anne Meara\’s \”After-Play,\” a conversation piece now at the Canon Theater in Beverly Hills, is a kind of \”Look Back in Anguish\” conducted by two middle-aged couples whose lives seem to encompass all the failings of the past half century: broken families,marital spite, psychoanalytical distress.
Liss, a veteranscreenwriter with a long list of credits, including theHolocaust-themed TV film \”Hidden in Silence,\” has been to hell andback on an odyssey filled with more risk and drama than a paperbackthriller.
The Project aims to debunk stereotypes about Jewish women and strives to highlight heroines who shape their own lives, women who are central protagonists and not merely supporting characters.
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