Ten high school students* from the across the metro have been selected as finalists for KC SuperStar 2020! The Top 10 were announced in a virtual live-streamed program featuring mini-performances by all 23 semifinalists.
The Jewish Community Center of Greater Buffalo and Camp Centerland at the Irving M. Shuman campgrounds, has announced that Camp will be open this summer, continuing a 90-year legacy of bringing meaningful summer experiences to children and their families.
Frustrated by how many things you can't do under COVID-19 restrictions? Here's something you can do - help choose one of the 10 Finalists for KC SuperStar!
Gretchen Gross, an early childhood educator who founded Audubon in College Park, a national accredited program for young children, and served as its director almost continually for 38 years before retiring has been named this year's recipient of the Jewish Community Center's Ralph Kushner Volunteer Service Award. The award, established in 1998 and named after Ralph Kushner, a longtime community volunteer coordinator, is given annually to a community member who demonstrates exemplary volunteer community leadership.
COVID-19 may have cancelled many events, but it's hasn't stopped Kansas City's premiere high school singing competition and the Jewish Community Center's (The J) Annual fundraiser KC SuperStar-we are going virtual!
COVID-19 may have cancelled many events, but it's hasn't stopped Kansas City's premiere high school singing competition and the Jewish Community Center's (The J) Annual fundraiser KC SuperStar-we are going virtual!
The Jewish Community Center of Greater Buffalo invites the community to join IsraPalooza a?" a special corona-days Zoom celebration of Yom Ha'Atzmaut! Brought to you by our friends at Israel Story, the world's #1 Jewish podcast, and sponsored by Tablet Magazine, the Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan and The iCenter, 'IsraPalooza' is a day full of intimate conversations, interviews, family-friendly workshops, cooking classes and concerts featuring some of the most interesting Israelis around!
As Kansas City, and the rest of the country, grapples with a new normal during the coronavirus situation, The Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City has launched The Virtual J to stay connected and engaged with its members and participants.
Twenty-four high school students* from the across the metro have been selected as semifinalists for KC SuperStar 2020! A large number of singers attended preliminary auditions held in early March.
The Oshman Family JCC in Palo Alto has postponed Isaac Mizrahi's upcoming cabaret show, Movie Stars and Supermodels, due to the COVID-19 coronavirus guidance from the County of Santa Clara Public Health Department.
The sun will come out in September as Children's Theatre of Charlotte opens its 73rd season with the Tony award-winning musical Annie.
Nationally acclaimed new play development theatre, Southern Rep, finds itself in a heartbreaking situation. Ticket sales and mainstage subscriptions are at an all-time high. Arts education programming is thriving. Audiences are raving about the work and the company's new venue, the former St. Rose de Lima Church on Bayou Road. And still, Southern Rep finds itself in an urgent financial crisis as it navigates the expenses of moving into their new home.
Jewish Repertory Theatre continues its 17TH season with MODERN ORTHODOX, April 23 a?" May 17, at the Maxine and Robert Seller Theatre, in the Jewish Community Center, 2640 North Forest Rd., Amherst, NY.
Theater J, located in Washington, DC's Jewish Community Center focuses its work on celebrating and bringing light to the Jewish culture and its people. Anna Ziegler's The Wanderers is no exception to this mission. This is the fourth Ziegler play that Theater J has produced and its one that is sure to spark conversation, make the audience think deeply about the characters, and even toys with one's own emotions and thoughts on their own lives.
Theater J Artistic Director Adam Immerwahr and Managing Director Jojo Ruf have announced Theater J's 30th anniversary season of five plays and two musicals. The nation's largest and most prominent Jewish theater company, Theater J celebrates its anniversary with a season that features all the elements that have become signature to its work: stories that illuminate the Jewish condition, joyfully celebrate humanity, and challenge us to empathize and think more deeply about the world.
If you imagine a new production of the classic musical Hair will be a cozy, nostalgic revel in hippie culture you are partly right. But Hair was created as a bold and provocative statement of the counter culture to the establishment, and director Frank Goodloe's take on the material is faithful to both the stylistic and intellectual aesthetic that lies at the heart of the show.
The Lewis and Shirley White Theatre at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City (The J) is excited to announce it has secured the rights to the Broadway smash hit a?oeSomething Rottena?? for its 2020-2021 season.
Fresh off of a three-week residency at Café Carlyle in New York City, fashion designer and a?oeProject Runway: All Starsa?? judge Isaac Mizrahi will appear in Palo Alto at the Oshman Family JCC. The West Coast premiere of his newest cabaret show, Movie Stars and Supermodels, will feature the media icon dishing on model fittings, intimate dinners, and exclusive parties with Hollywood's elite, all while sharing his hilarious musings on everything of the momenta?"from politics to his latest Instagram obsessions. Accompanied by a band of talented jazz musicians led by acclaimed pianist Ben Waltzer, Mizrahi will also perform a wide range of tunes by everyone from Cole Porter to Jule Styne, Stephen Sondheim, and even John Denver. Following his venture into singing, the designer-turned-cabaret artist has been called a?oea founding father of a genre that fuses performance art, music, and stand-up comedya?? by The New York Times. Movie Stars & Supermodels will be presented 7:30pm, Saturday, March 28, 2020 at the Oshman Family JCC, 3921 Fabian Way, Palo Alto. For tickets ($120 Front row seating and wine reception with the performers, $90 General Public, $85 Members and J-Pass Holders) and more information, the public may visit paloaltojcc.org/mizrahi or call (650) 223-8718.
William Shakespeare's 1595 comedy A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM is one of his most often performed light plays. Stripped down, it is a screwball romantic comedy of misdirection written across five acts in verse.
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