January 22, 2012

Two teens to be featured at Lawrence Family JCC’s ‘Musicians in the Making’ program

By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — Two remarkable young men will be the next featured soloists on the January 29, Musicians in the Making program at 2 p.m. at the Astor Judaica Library of the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center. Pianist and bass-baritone Elliott Wulff, 17, is a senior at Rancho Bernardo High School […]

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Eileen Wingard

Helen Hunt is stage manager in new production of Wilder’s ‘Our Town’

By Cynthia Citron SANTA MONICA, California — There must be at least half a dozen people in L.A. who have never seen Thornton Wilder’s classic play Our Town. If you are one of them, you couldn’t do better than the production that opened this week at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica. Helmed by Helen Hunt

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Cynthia Citron

‘Request Programme’ reprised and ready for prime time

   By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO—Ion theatre company is reprising Franz Xavier Kroetz’ one-woman show, Request Programme. In 2008 Ion mounted this piece in their little theatre adjacent to the Trolley stop in Allied Gardens. Now in their new space on 6th Avenue with the stage much closer to the audience, Linda Libby reenacts a

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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

‘From Within the Tent’ is a book for those wanting intense Jewish study

From Within the Tent: The Haftarot by Rabbi Daniel Z. Feldman and Stuart W. Halpern, Editors; Yeshiva University Press, New York; ISBN 978-161-329-0316 ©2011, $29.95, p. 719 By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California– Ezra and Nehemiah, prophet and governor respectively, introduced the first public reading of the Torah, the Five Books of Moses, in the late

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Fred Reiss, EdD, Jewish Religion