Soprano bidding adieu to Bay Area
Vocalist Ayelet Cohen will give two Bay Area concerts next week, including her farewell performance before moving to Israel.
Cohen will sing 2 p.m. June 12 at Congregation Ner Tamid, 1250 Quintara St., San Francisco. She’ll perform “Songs from the Book of Psalms” with guitar accompaniment by Achi Ben Shalom. Tickets are $10 to $15. For details, visit www.nertamidsf.org.
The soprano will also give a “goodbye concert” 7:30 p.m. May 14 in the social hall at Temple Beth Abraham, 327 MacArthur Blvd., Oakland. Admission to the concert, which will also feature instrumentalists, is by donation. For more information, visit www.ayeletsoprano.com.
The Jerusalem-born Cohen has been in the Bay Area since 2001, when she arrived on scholarship to study at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
TJT drops ‘Traveling’ from its name
Traveling Jewish Theatre, based in San Francisco, has announced that as of its upcoming 2009-10 season, the company will be called the Jewish Theatre, San Francisco — keeping its acronym of TJT.
The change comes as TJT, which began in 1978, has phased out the traveling aspect of its mission, instead basing all performances at its Florida Street theater in San Francisco’s Media Gulch.
The Jewish Theatre’s 2009-10 season will open in October 2009 with the world premiere of “Stateless” by Dan Wolf and Tommy Shepherd, with music by One Ring Zero and Gebrueder Wolf.
For more information, visit www.atjt.com or call (415) 292-1233.