Clifford Odets burst onto Broadway in 1935, when three plays by the 29-year-old actor-writer — "Waiting for Lefty," "Awake and Sing" and "Paradise Lost" — opened in the same year.
Bite off a rose, scoop up your honey and dance on down to the New JCC at Milken.
At Sinai Akiba Academy recently, Bryna Vener vigorously conducted close to 100 first- through-eighth-graders in a passionate rendition of \”Hava Nagila\” as students danced in their seats. If the atmosphere was celebratory, it was because the assembly was a dress rehearsal for the orchestra\’s 25th anniversary concert and alumni reunion June 10, when graduates will return to fete Vener and her remarkable group.
Brad Pitt may have sustained an injury during the filming of his new movie, "Troy," but I sustained an injury during the viewing of the film.
During \”Naharin\’s Virus\” a provocatative dance/performance piece that the Batsheva Dance company will excerpt this week at UCLA, a dancer holds chalk in her hand, dragging it through her body movements: Arching her back, outstretching her arm, she trails Hebrew words on a blackboard.
Make a play date today or tomorrow. The Celebrity Staged Play Reading Series performance of \”Talley\’s Folley\” presents husband-and-wife team Alan Blumenfeld and Katherine James reprising their roles in last month\’s Pasadena Playhouse production.
Back in 1981, when I was attending rabbinical college in Boston, there was a young rabbi — fresh out of seminary — who founded a small congregation in the Boston suburb South Brookline.
Actor Jack Black wowed the crowd during Beth Chayim Chadashim\’s (BCC) Humanitarian Awards Brunch at the Omni Hotel on Feb. 22 when he played his \”saxaboom\” — a toy saxophone that belts out prerecorded tunes.
In a rehearsal room at the Odyssey Theatre, Colette Freedman propped her electric-blue high tops on a chair and good naturedly laughed at herself. \”I\’m truly flawed,\” the 30-ish actress-playwright said. \”I am totally a hypocrite.\”\n\nWell, not totally. While her \”Deconstructing the Torah,\” an evening of one-acts, skewers part of herself, it mostly dissects conflicts faced by Freedman and other modern Jewish women.
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