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Fashion designer and cabaret signer Isaac Mizrahi will perform in the Bay Area in April. (David Andrako Photo)
Posted inMusic

‘I Know Everybody’: Isaac Mizrahi brings his flair for the dramatic to the Bay Area

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky April 16, 2025April 16, 2025
Three men, one very young and two very old, light candles in front of a packed auditorium
Posted inHolidays

Bay Area events for Yom HaShoah and Israel Memorial Day

by J. Staff April 14, 2025April 21, 2025
Dancers in rehearsal for Marika Brussel's "Slant of the Earth." (Courtesy)
Posted inDance

New ballet on Peninsula reinvents Genesis as a love quadrangle

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky April 8, 2025April 14, 2025
The Flying Karamazov Brothers, a Santa Cruz-based circus troupe that attained unusually wide pop culture recognition, is performing its 50th anniversary show at the Oshman Family JCC in Palo Alto on April 26, 2025. (Courtesy)
Posted inOn Stage

50 years later, Flying Karamazov Brothers return to Bay Area, where it all started

by Dan Pine March 31, 2025April 3, 2025
An SS officer shakes a dog’s paw. (Courtesy U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum)
Posted inTheater

Candid photos of off-hours Nazis at Auschwitz inspired play at Berkeley Rep

by Sue Fishkoff March 12, 2025March 20, 2025
Jamie Marx, "The Spiel Guy" (left) has written Purimspiels used by hundreds of synagogues — including Congregation Shir Hadash in Los Gatos, seen here enjoying his "Encanto"-themed spiel.
Posted inReligion

450 synagogues have turned to ‘The Spiel Guy’ for their Purimspiel scripts

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss March 11, 2025March 11, 2025
Jason Veasey and Ana Yi Puig in rehearsal for "Nobody Loves You." (Sarah Sugg)
Posted inTheater

Musical comedy from Berkeley pals aims Cupid’s arrow at dating shows

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss February 12, 2025February 18, 2025
six people perform a chaotic modern dance on stage
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Israel’s famed Batsheva Dance Company bringing its lithe athleticism back to Bay Area

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky February 10, 2025February 11, 2025
Noah Kahan performing in Edmonton, Canada, March 29, 2024. (Wikimedia Commons)
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‘Stick Season’ singer Noah Kahan to headline Napa festival

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky January 14, 2025January 15, 2025
"Esther Denouncing Haman" by Ernest Normand, 1888. 
The Heritage Foundation's Project Esther incorrectly references the Book of Esther as part of the Torah. (Wikimedia Commons)
Posted inTheater

New Lehrhaus class will unpack opera’s fixation on Biblical tales

Robert Nagler Miller by Robert Nagler Miller December 18, 2024December 18, 2024

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