"The interesting thing about many short stories is that they are wonderful live performance texts," said Kurt Beattie, artistic director for Seattle&
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Salanio’s imitation of Shylock in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice makes any modern theatergoer cringe: "I never heard a passion so co
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Author Jonathan Tropper, whose bestselling This is Where I Leave You just came out in paperback, doesn’t try to be funny. But that didn’t
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Genre-bending bands are nothing new. For decades The Clash fused punk with reggae. The Pogues have similarly drawn on punk rock energy to deliver thei
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The Fall of a Sparrow: The Life and Times of Abba Kovner , By Dina Porat; translated by Elizabeth Yuval (Stanford University Press, 2009). Abba Kovne
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We all know about Gerard Schwarz, conductor. Lately, we’ve been hearing more and more about Gerard Schwarz, composer. Schwarz’ latest wor
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Kinky Friedman first rose to fame in the early 1970s for his satirical country music act, which he performed with his band Kinky Friedman and The Texa
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"There’s just something about music," says Michele Yanow, that puts people in touch with their roots. Yanow, a lifelong choral singer, successf
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"There is no shortcut to certainty," says Gbenga Akinnagbe, in character as the solo actor who portrays the stories of 11 Seattle citizens in The Thi
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Novelist Dani Shapiro examines her own life in her second memoir, Devotion (Harper, cloth, $24.99), her quest for religious and spiritual meaning in p
Read MoreBiographical Documentary USA English Language with limited subtitles Tues., May 25, 7 p.m. — Harvard Exit Thurs. May 27, 4:30 p.m. — SIFF Cinema Ratin
Read MoreDrama based on factual event USA English language, with minimal subtitles Sat., May 22, 9:30 p.m. — Pacific Place Cinema Sun., May 23, 4 p.m. — Pacifi
Read MoreNEW YORK (JTA) — Early on in the Talmudic tractate of Taanit, Rabbi Yitzchak causes a bit of a stir when, in the name of Rabbi Yochanan, he declares:
Read MoreKnown to cinema fans from his soundtrack for the 1991 film Tous les Matins du Monde/All the Mornings of the World, composer Jordi Savall’s 40-ye
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The poetry of teenaged Jewish boys imprisoned in the TerezÃn concentration camp will be given new life in the oratorio Vedem, by composer Lori Laitma
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Hazzan Isaac Azose’s CD, Ladino Reflections, took just six months to produce, but it took 20 years to dream. His double-disc collection of Ladin
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LOS ANGELES (JTA) — The Public Broadcasting Service will offer U.S. television viewers a concentrated history lesson during Holocaust Remembrance Week
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When JDub Records sent us its first foray into children’s music, an album called Let’s Go Coconuts! by a band called The Macaroons, we kne
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In the world of women, shoes can change everything. Women lurk among department store shoe racks, touching, trying, fantasizing. This phenomenon is la
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