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On Stage

Joel Roster at Contra Costa Community Theatre in El Cerrito, Mar. 1, 2024. (Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
Posted inTheater

Contra Costa Civic Theatre’s new artistic director promises a more authentic ‘Fiddler’

by Patricia Corrigan March 4, 2024March 4, 2024
A street in the Shanghai Jewish Ghetto circa 1943. (Photo/Wikimedia Commons)
Posted inTheater

The story of Shanghai’s Jewish community during WWII is now a musical

by Julia Gergely February 27, 2024February 27, 2024
Eden Bahar performing during Cirque du Soleil's "Kooza" in 2022. (Photo/Matt Beard)
Posted inMusic

This Israeli Cirque du Soleil drummer holds a Guinness World Record

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten January 26, 2024January 30, 2024
Playwright Andrea Gordon (Photo/Courtesy)
Posted inTheater

‘Miriam and Esther Go to the Diamond District’: Family secrets drive play premiering this month in S.F.

Leslie Katz by Leslie Katz January 4, 2024January 10, 2024
Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman's "Harmony" is now on Broadway. (Photo/JTA-Julieta Cervantes)
Posted inThe Matzo Chronicles

Broadway’s ‘Harmony’ includes origin story of singer who became S.F. cantor

Karen Galatz by Karen Galatz December 26, 2023December 28, 2023
(Photo/JTA-Getty Images; Collage/JTA-Grace Yagel)
Posted inObituaries

20 Jewish celebrities who died in 2023

Gabe Friedman by Gabe Friedman December 19, 2023
a woman in an orange dress in a dance pose on a black floor
Posted inDance

An Israeli artist poses a bold question: What if Othello wasn’t at the center of ‘Othello’

by Stav Ziv December 13, 2023December 13, 2023
Maia, a young black performer, stands on stage at a microphone, as if she is competing in a spelling bee
Posted inTheater

23-year-old actor made leap from camp talent show to local stages

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten November 17, 2023February 28, 2024
John Turturro stars in "Sabbath's Theater," which he adapted from the Philip Roth novel with the New Yorker writer Ariel Levy. (Photo/JTA-Monique Carboni)
Posted inCulture

How New Yorker writer Ariel Levy adapted Philip Roth’s filthiest book for the stage

by Andrew Silow-Carroll November 7, 2023
Comedian Alex Edelman finds humor in hate in his solo show "Just for Us," which closed on Broadway in August and comes to San Francisco this month. (Photo/Matthew Murphy)
Posted inComedy

‘Just for Us’: Comedian Alex Edelman’s Broadway show about his run-in with neo-Nazis comes to S.F.

Leslie Katz by Leslie Katz October 5, 2023October 6, 2023

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