A simple gift of a book of poems has blossomed into an artistic project that is coming to San Francisco later this month, bringing together Sweet Can Productions, an S.F. circus company, and the Levins, a married folk-singing duo. The fruit of their collaboration, “My Friend Hafiz,” blends acrobatics, aerial dance and clowning with live…
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Comedy
A night of spuds and comedy at ‘Latkes and Laughs’
Temple Emanu-El in San Jose apparently thinks that potato pancakes are more easily digested with a dollop of comedy. To that end, the synagogue will be…
Music
Mandy Patinkin in concert: a call to repair the world
Mandy Patinkin, who will be performing in concert at the Palo Alto Oshman Family JCC on Nov. 1, said his show “Diaries 2018” is in honor of Anne Frank,…
Theater
'The Chosen': frozen in time, or still relevant?
When playwright Aaron Posner was seeking a Jewish-themed book to adapt for the stage in the late 1990s, he went to the author Chaim Potok for advice. To…
Theater
‘Obligation’ up for 3 awards, back for new S.F. run
“The Obligation,” a one-man stage show written and performed by Bay Area native Roger Grunwald, has been nominated for three Theatre Bay Area Awards, it…
Theater
'Oslo' explores personal risks taken for peace
Remember the photo from 1993 that shows Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat shaking hands at the White House with a beaming President Bill Clinton standing…
On Stage
AIDS crisis to Trump era: drag troupe turns 25
Twenty-five years ago, Jewish lawyers Benjamin Schatz and Irwin Keller and two friends, Jerry Friedman and Maurice Kelly, poured all the pathos and fury…
On Stage
Jewish angst and ‘Assholes’ coming to S.F. Fringe Fest
Ronen Sberlo admits it wasn’t easy coming up with a name for his one-man show, “Experts, Assholes and True Believers.” “It was a long, Jewish, neurotic…
Dance
Bringing exercise and creativity together through dance
It is emblematic of her long life as a dancer and choreographer that when Kathryn Roszak teaches an adult fitness class at the East Bay JCC, it’s going to…