“Hadestown,” a musical about the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice and the underworld, won best new musical at the Tony Awards, and a coveted prize for its Jewish director. Rachel Chavkin won the Tony Award for best director of a musical for “Hadestown,” the tenth woman ever to win best director for a Broadway…
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On Stage
S.F. cantor’s daughter sings in ‘Once’
Ariela Morgenstern has the acting and singing chops for her role in a new San Francisco production of the Tony Award-winning musical “Once” — but that’s…
Celebrity Jews
The Jews go to the Tonys, 2019
The Tony Awards, for excellence in the Broadway theater, will air here at 8 p.m. Sunday, June 9 on CBS. Here are the confirmed Jewish nominees in all but…
Dance
Where Judaism meets modern dance
When four choreographers — all Jewish women and each in different stages of their careers — come together on a panel to talk about identity, art and…
Storytelling
Jews grappling with diverse identities show their ‘True Colors’
What makes a Jew in modern times? It might well be kimchi on the seder plate, according to “True Colors,” a new show that brings to life the stories of…
Theater
New play, premiering in S.F., tells the story of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Some 40 years ago, when Lee Sankowich first read about the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943, he was fascinated. The young Jews who held off the Nazis for 27…
Dance
Prison families’ painful experiences take flight in ‘The Wait Room’
Jo Kreiter is a cutting-edge San Francisco choreographer whose aerial dance productions take heart-stopping dives into the most intractable social issues.…
Music
Violin virtuoso Gil Shaham brings his ‘favorite recital’ to Bay Area
Even after four decades of fiddling around, violinist Gil Shaham says what he does for a living is, well, a bit weird. “Playing on the violin is such a…
Music
Ladino is the language, S.F. the setting for world premiere of grand Jewish oratorio
We generally associate the word “oratorio” with weighty musical works on Christian subjects by Baroque composers like J.S. Bach. But on Tuesday, April 30,…