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Ari'el Stachel rehearses his one-man show. (Photo/Muriel Steinke)
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Tony winner Ari’el Stachel comes home to Berkeley to premiere deeply personal one-man show

Alix Wall by Alix Wall June 9, 2023July 10, 2025

When Berkeley-born actor Ari’el Stachel won a Tony Award in 2018 for his Broadway debut in “The Band’s Visit,” he gave an emotional acceptance speech. “I want any kid who […]

Roger Guenveur Smith is the writer and star of "Otto Frank," playing at the Magic Theatre in San Francisco this month.
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One-man play about Anne Frank’s father, Otto, comes to San Francisco

by Dan Pine March 10, 2022March 10, 2022
Roger Grunwald as Shmuel, an Auschwitz survivor, in "The Mitzvah."
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One-man play goes online to deliver Holocaust lessons to new generation

by Dan Pine January 19, 2021January 20, 2021
Dan Schifrin’s original one-man play “String Theory” is coming to the Marsh. (Photo/Courtesy Hagit Caspi)
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Connecting with Martin Buber in ‘String Theory’ at the Marsh

Laura Pall by Laura Paull September 4, 2019
a bald man in a green tshirt and jeans strikes a pose on a stage with a chair
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Q&A: He abandoned journalism for stand-up comedy and one-man shows

by Patricia Corrigan April 9, 2019
Bob Garfield in a September, 2017 performance in Philadelphia of his one-man show, "Ruggedly Jewish" (Photo/Michael Gottlieb)
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In one-man show, NPR’s Bob Garfield asks: To Jew or not to Jew?

by Rob Gloster January 17, 2018March 23, 2018

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