Rachel Michelberg may have sung Jewish religious music all her life, but she’s ready to play a singing nun onstage any time. A cantorial soloist for many years as well as a musical theater actress and voice teacher, Michelberg has played the Mother Abbess in Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “The Sound of Music” twice before, and…
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Theater
A ‘Merchant’ for our times — all female, all hip-hop
“A bustling metropolis filled with chaos and divisions. The city is changing. Class and religion divide us. Hate and fear fuel our ignorance. And money is…
Comedy
Comedy by and for women who are ‘Hollywood old’
Are you a “Hollywood old” woman? If you’ve turned 30, you are. A comedy show especially for women over 29, “Yarn: Storytelling with Heather Gold and…
Theater
This ‘Cabaret’ is ‘a middle finger’ to Nazis
Come to the “Cabaret” opening in San Francisco, and you may experience the Broadway hit in a new way. “We’re doing a ‘Cabaret’ different from any you have…
Culture
An edgier take on Jewish life in today's Poland
Second in a week-long series of dispatches from the Krakow Jewish Culture Festival The Jewish Culture Festival that annually takes over the streets of the…
Theater
Two from Bay Area win big at Tony Awards
Two Bay Area natives, both of whom attended Tehiyah Day School and Berkeley High School, took home top honors in the 72nd annual Tony Awards ceremony at…
Celebrity Jews
The Jews go to the Tonys, 2018
The Tony Awards, for excellence in the Broadway theater, will be presented on Sunday, June 10. In the Bay Area, you can watch it tape-delayed (8 p.m.,…
Theater
‘Finks’ playwright bares family’s battles during ugly blacklist era
Playwright Joe Gilford jokes that his first words were Mama, Papa and Fifth Amendment. As a red diaper baby whose actor parents were blacklisted as…
Music
Women's stories through Ladino music and dance
A collaboration this weekend that honors the stories of women through music and dance from the Sephardic Jewish tradition is also, at its heart, the story…