Arts
Mysterious Maria Lani, in words and pictures
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER The Woman With Fifty Faces has several faces of its own. On its face, so to...
Children’s Theatre Company’s ‘Treasure Island’ features one Jewish actor as three pirates
By DORIS RUBENSTEIN Did you know that one of history’s most famous pirates was Jewish? Yes, Jean Lafitte, hero of...
‘In here, life is beautiful’
By ELANA WARREN / Assistant Editor On the Wurtele Thrust Stage at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, people are gay...
An artilleryman’s secret
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Going through husband Yefim Shulman’s things after his death in Donetsk, Ukraine, his wife Nina gets...
John Orenstein creates a musical for the Fringe
By DORIS RUBENSTEIN John Orenstein was one slick attorney for many years. He knew how to get what he wanted...
Jay Eisenberg fills multiple roles onstage and off
By DORIS RUBENSTEIN How and why would Jay Owen Eisenberg, a native New Yorker, a theater major graduate of the...
A wedding in Hebron gets complicated
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Having served in the Middle East, FBI agent Tony Malik isn’t naive about the area’s tensions...
On trumpet, Frank London
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR My last interview with Frank London took place nearly 10 years ago. The irrepressible trumpet player for...
Surviving the hell of death camps
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Josef Lewkowicz, a survivor of the notorious Płaszów concentration camp and five others, says he’s no...
Kim Kivens treads the boards in CDT’s production of ‘Grease’
The cast of "Grease," with Kim Kivens front and center, at Chanhassen Dinner Theatres. (Photo: Dan Norman) By DORIS RUBENSTEIN...
