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Neil Simon on “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson” in 1980 (Photo/JTA-Joseph Del Valle-NBC-NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)
Posted inCulture

With his ‘adventurous mind,’ Neil Simon dominated stage, film and TV

by JTA August 28, 2018
Ross Everett in his current show “Stop Stopping the Unstoppable” (Photo/Richard Michael Johnson)
Posted inOn Stage

JCHS grad’s career appears to be unstoppable

Laura Pall by Laura Paull July 26, 2018July 31, 2018
Rachel Michelberg (second from left) is a longtime cantorial soloist who is playing Mother Abbess in an upcoming production of 'Sound of Music' in Los Altos.
Posted inMusic

She sings like a cantor and acts like a nun

Hannah Jannol by Hannah Jannol July 18, 2018July 18, 2018
The cast of “Curren$y,” Dan Wolf’s all-female hip-hop reinterpretation of "Merchant of Venice" (Photo/Bethanie Hines)
Posted inCulture

A ‘Merchant of Venice’ for our times — all female, all hip-hop

Laura Pall by Laura Paull July 5, 2018July 11, 2018
heather gold on stage
Posted inComedy

Comedy by and for women who are ‘Hollywood old’

Hannah Jannol by Hannah Jannol July 5, 2018July 10, 2018
“Cabaret” dancers in rehearsal (Photo/Courtesy D. Shaindlin)
Posted inUncategorized

‘A middle finger’ to Nazis in this ‘Cabaret,’ old chum

by Patricia Corrigan June 29, 2018June 29, 2018
Michael Rubenfeld, one of the four co-founders of Festivalt, which runs concurrently with the Krakow Jewish Culture Festival (Photo/Sharon Eshel Gloster)
Posted inCulture

Krakow diary, day 2: An edgier take on Jewish life in contemporary Poland

by Rob Gloster June 28, 2018June 29, 2018
Ari’el Stachel with his mother, Laura Stachel, at the Tony Awards on June 10
Posted inTheater

Two from Bay Area win big at Tony Awards

by JTA and J. Staff June 11, 2018June 13, 2018
Ari’el Stachel (right) plays matchmaker to two shy Israelis, played by Rachel Prather and Etai Benson, in the broadway musical "The Band's Visit." (Photo/JTA-Matt Murphy)
Posted inColumns

The Jews go to the Tonys, 2018 — including Berkeley’s own Ari’el Stachel

by Nate Bloom June 7, 2018
Jack and Madeline Gilford, playwright Joe Gilford's parents. (Photo/Courtesy Joe Gilford)
Posted inCulture

‘Finks’ playwright bares family’s battles during ugly blacklist era

by Rob Gloster May 29, 2018May 29, 2018

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