By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — Nathan Gunn is one of America’s greatest and most versatile baritones, as he amply proves in the HersheyFelder produced and directed one-man show, Nathan Gunn, Flying Solo, A Musical Story about Family, Love, and the Wild World of Music. Now showing, until June 10 at the Lyceum Stage, this virtuoso […]
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Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — twenty high school students competed in the 5th annual Broadway San Diego Awards: Celebrating Excellence in High School Theatre On Sunday night, May 27. The two winners each receive a check for $1,000 toward a scholarship and a chance to go on to the national Jimmy Awards on Broadway.
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Eric George Tauber, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – The AMC in La Jolla and the Angelika Film Center in the Carmel Mountain area will begin screening on Friday, June 1, the suspenseful Hungarian film 1945 in which the arrival on a train immediately after the Holocaust on an elderly Orthodox Jewish man and his son throws
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LOS ANGELES (Press Release) —The Adam and Gila Milstein Family Foundation announced the details of its third annual “Inspired by Israel” video contest, which it launched this week in partnership with the 12Tribe Films Foundation. Hosted on Israelvideonetwork.com, the contest will ask entrants to submit videos that entertain, educate and inspire people about Israel. A
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Middle East, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABy Pamela Pollack-Fremd SAN DIEGO — Mountain is a tribute to the power and fascination mountains have had over us mere mortals since the beginning of time. It is a Screen Australia production, produced and directed by Jennifer Peedom. The film provides gorgeous visuals of mountains in twenty-two countries throughout the world. The music which accompanies
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By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — “A woman must endure.” The Old Globe tears the veil open in a play by Ursula Rani Sarma based on the book by Khaled Hosseini, and what we see is heartbreaking. Afghanistan. We hear the name and brace ourselves. How many were killed this time? We know so little about
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Eric George Tauber, Theatre, Film & BroadcastCHULA VISTA, California (Press Release) — In celebration of its 60th anniversary, Temple Beth Shalom is sponsoring Comedy Shmomedy, a troupe that brings together such stand up comedians as Tony Calabrese, Melissa Greenberg, Simon Blackthorn, Scott Blumen and Dr. Abby for a night of laughter and joy. The performance will be held at the Temple
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Wrestling Jerusalem is a rather incredible one-man show, now filmed, in which writer and actor Aaron Davidman, in some 22 vignettes over 93 minutes, portrays the complexities, hardened positions, anger, sadness, frustration, fervor, poignancy, and, eventually, hope that characterize Israelis and Palestinians in the seemingly never-ending dispute. Because
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Editor’s Note: This is the eleventh in a series of stories researched during Don and Nancy Harrison’s 50th Wedding Anniversary cruise from Sydney, Australia, to San Diego. Previous installments of the series, which runs every Thursday, may be found by tapping the number of the installment: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 By Donald H.
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BALTIMORE, Maryland (Press Release) — On June 24, the Jewish Museum of Maryland (JMM), in Baltimore, will open Inescapable: The Life and Legacy of Harry Houdini, an original exhibit exploring the life and legacy of the world’s most famous magician. Featuring dozens of artifacts, photos and archival records, many on loan from public and private collections,
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Jewish History, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — When we were in Las Vegas last year, visiting our son and daughter-in-law, on one particular evening they were otherwise occupied. They made sure to seat us comfortably in the living room facing the large TV screen, handed us the remote control, and told us to find something on
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Rabbi Ben Kamin OCEANSIDE, California — Aaron Burr is glacial; Alexander Hamilton is overwrought; King George has skinny legs and a hilarious voice; Eliza Schuyler (Hamilton’s deceived wife) is heartbroken and enraged. The unprecedented and prize-winning musical, Hamilton has been touring far and wide—I finally had the chance to see and hear it here
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By Pamela Pollack-Fremd SAN DIEGO — American Socialist: The Life & Times of Eugene Victor Debs, a documentary created by Yale Strom, is an excellent introduction to a man who had a great effect on the life of all who labor to survive. Debs spent his whole life speaking, writing, organizing and representing those who
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast© Oliver B. Pollak RICHMOND, California — Some observations suggest sharing. They may be intimate, personal, or idiosyncratic. The task is to make them meaningful for a wider reading audience. My mission is to identify stories by Jews and of interest to Jews. Three recent San Diego Jewish World stories appear to have threads. I
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