Category: Arts & Culture

By Diana Brement , JTNews Columnist Seattle’s beleaguered Intiman theater has reopened this summer with a festival, four plays presented in r

By Joel Magalnick , Editor, JTNews

By Marvin Glassman, Special to JTNews At 71, singer/songwriter Neil Diamond could easily settle into retirement, looking back on his nearly 50-year

By Herb Krohn, Special to JTNews The 36th Annual Seattle International Film Festival kicks off 25 days of non stop cinema on Thurs., May 17. Ticket

By Jason Miller, JTA World News Service WEST BLOOMFIELD, Mich. (JTA) — A few months after my first child was born, I went to a bookstore to buy a f

By Dikla Tuchman , JTNews Correspondent Opera can tell a story in a way no other musical composition can. The level of emotional intensity opera ac

By Alice Kaderlan , JTNews Correspondent In the mid ‘60s, in the small German village of Efringen-Kirchen on the French border, a preteen boy

By Alice Kaderlan, JTNews Correspondent It will come as no surprise to anyone who has seen Frank Ferrante at Teatro ZinZanni that this is a man who

By Debra Rubin , JTA World News Service WASHINGTON (JTA) — Emotional. Raw. Frustrating. That’s how Oz Fishman describes his reaction to "Bull

By Dikla Tuchman , Special to JTNews As the spring quarter launches into full bloom at the University of Washington, the Stroum Jewish Studies Prog

By Michael Fox , Special to JTNews If movies can truly make a difference, then the timing of the soulful French wartime drama "Free Men" couldn

By Alice Kaderlan , Special to JTNews It’s hard to decide which story is more compelling — the one about Irena Sendler, a Polish Catholic who