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 process,” says Sberlo, who will perform in the San Francisco Fringe Festival next month. “I wanted something that expressed both the whimsical and satirical nature of some of the…
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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…
U.S.
Neil Simon: 'adventurous' mind of stage and screen
Playwright Neil Simon, known for such Broadway hits as “The Odd Couple,” “Barefoot in the Park” and “Lost in Yonkers,” may be most remembered among his…
Theater
JCHS grad's 'unstoppable' career
“All I really need to know I learned in kindergarten,” Robert Fulghum wrote in 1986. Though Ross Everett was just a baby at the time, today he might take…
On Stage
She sings like a cantor and acts like a nun
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…
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…