Sometimes a production is more than a play. It's a slice of humanity with all its warts and blemishes. Brigit St Brigit Theatre Company took Tennessee Williams' powerful WIngfield family drama to the stage at the Jewish Community Center tonight and left me desolate. THE GLASS MENAGERIE studies a mother, a son, and a daughter with their complex relationship of love and control.
Margaret Edwartowski has been told her whole life that she looks like the late pop singer Cass Elliot, or, perhaps best known onstage, as "Mama Cass" of the Mamas and the Papas. "People would always come up to me and say, 'You know who you remind me of…" Edwartowski says. "Once I learned about her and started reading about her, I tried to emulate her. She was smart, resilient and very talented."
The 11th annual Neustadt JAAMM Festival at the Mizel Arts and Culture Center is a celebration of Jewish Arts, Authors, Music and Movies. Included in this year's offerings is a variety of theatre, dance and music events. Open to the entire Denver front range community, the JAAMM Festival runs from October 4th through November 18th, 2018.??
Kansas City Chiefs offensive lineman Mitchell Schwartz will share his passions on and off the football field, during a program on Monday night, Oct. 15, in the Social Hall of the Jewish Community Center, 5801 W 115th Street in Overland Park.
The Oshman Family JCC presents Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird, a klezmer band from Berlin bringing Jewish punk cabaret into the modern day. The original radical Yiddish borderland bandits, the group offers the sound of 'Alienation Klezmer'-a unique mixture of traditional Jewish folk music, radical Yiddish song, political cabaret, and punk rock. Concocted by singer/songwriter, polyglot poet, multi-instrumentalist, and activist Daniel Kahn, these furious, tender, and electrifying melodies are inspired by the struggles of Jewish revolutionaries and Kahn's own desire for a better world. The band's captivating fusion of accordion and punk rock has been described by Rolling Stone Germany as 'the free-spirited attitude of the New York Tzadik circle, cabaret flair, and scraps of Tom Waits.' This engaging cultural and musical journey will be presented 7:30pm, Thursday, November 15, 2018 at the Oshman Family JCC Schultz Cultural Arts Hall, 3921 Fabian Way, Palo Alto. For tickets $25 General, $20 JCC Members and J-Pass holders) and more information, visit paloaltojcc.org/kahn or call (650) 223-8649.
This fall God suddenly shows up for therapy in Israeli playwright Anat Gov's "divine comedy," running September 14-30, at the Pluss Theatre in Denver's Staenburg-Loup Jewish Community Center. Produced by Theatre Or,* in collaboration with the Mizel Arts and Culture Center, Oh My God! is an early selection of JAAMM Fest (Jewish Arts, Authors, Music and Movies). God will also materialize at the Robert and Judi Newman Performing Arts Center on the University of Denver Campus for two performances on October 6; and he will then appear for two performances in Boulder on October 13 and 14, in collaboration with the Boulder Jewish Community Center.
The Jewish Community Center of Greater Buffalo, in collaboration with the Holocaust Resource Center of Buffalo, presents Witnesses: Buffalo's Holocaust-Era Stories Traveling Gallery Exhibit, on display in the Lippman Lounge, 2nd floor, JCC Benderson Family Building, 2640 North Forest Rd., Amherst, NY.
The Oshman Family JCC presents Emmy Award-winning actor and singer Mandy Patinkin in Concert: Diaries 2018. This spectacular event will offer the rare chance to experience the internationally acclaimed Broadway legend in an intimate concert setting.
From October 6 to 27 at the Upper East Side's Bohemian National Hall and Jan Hus Church, GOH Productions will present a Centennial Heritage Festival, featuring mainstage marionette theater productions for adults and kids and musical concerts for audiences of all ages. The festival celebrates two auspicious anniversaries: the Centennial Anniversary of the founding of Czechoslovakia (1918) and the Millennial Anniversary of the unification of the Lands of the Czech Crown, under Duke Oldrich (1018).
The Art Gallery, located in the Jewish Community Center of Greater Buffalo Holland Family Building, is pleased to present a solo exhibit by artist Daniel Rodgers. The exhibit entitled, "Thoughts Along the Way", opens November 1, 2018 and will be on view through December 28, 2018.
The Bunis Family Art Gallery, located in the Jewish Community Center of Greater Buffalo, Benderson Family Building, is pleased to present a group photography exhibit entitled, "5 Jewish Photographers from Western New York". The exhibit will showcase the works of photographers Errol Daniels, Milt Ehrenberg, Linda Gale Gellman, Marty Kerker and Shiri Kester. Opening November 1, 2018 the exhibit will be on view through December 28, 2018.
11th Annual Neustadt JAAMM Festival, a celebration of Jewish arts, authors, movies and music, will be presented at Denver's Mizel Arts and Culture Center at the Staenberg-Loup Jewish Community Center starting October 4th and running through November 18th, 2018. Tickets for the festival will go on sale September 4th online at www.jccdenver.org/jaamm and at the box office at 303-316-6360, located at the Mizel Arts and Culture Center at 350 S. Dahlia Street in Denver.??
KC SuperStar 2018 is just weeks away with the excitement building to see who will win the high school singing competition sponsored annually by the Jewish Community Center. The Finals will take place Sunday evening, Aug. 26, at Yardley Hall at Johnson County Community College. Broadway, TV and Film Superstar Megan Hilty will host KC SuperStar Finals and perform a musical number with the finalists during the high-energy show.
More than 500 people packed The White Theatre at the Jewish Community Center (The J) cheering on 21 singers during the Semifinals of KC SuperStar. But in the end, 10 area high school students were chosen as finalists* for the 2018 KC SuperStar singing competition!
The Wall of Respect was a mural created in 1967 by Chicago artists representing the Organization of Black American Culture. It fostered Black pride, revitalized the neighborhood and gave birth to a national community mural movement. Some 49 years later, the Wall no longer exists having burnt with the building it was painted on. However, historic photos of the iconic wall were powerful enough to inspire a project in Kansas City that has engaged more than 150 people of all ages and ethnicities from every area of the metro area.
Join the Jewish Community Center of Greater Buffalo Cultural Arts department and Suzuki Violinists of WNY as they partner to present an afternoon of hands-on family fun with instruments! This event is sponsored by Wrona's House of Violins, located in Lewiston, NY.
This fall God suddenly shows up for therapy in Israeli playwright Anat Gov's "divine comedy," running September 14-30, at the Pluss Theatre in Denver's Staenburg-Loup Jewish Community Center. Produced by Theatre Or,* in collaboration with the Mizel Arts and Culture Center, Oh My God! is an early selection of JAAMM Fest (Jewish Arts, Authors, Music and Movies). God will also materialize at the Robert and Judi Newman Performing Arts Center on the University of Denver Campus for two performances on October 6; and he will then appear for two performances in Boulder on October 13 and 14, in collaboration with the Boulder Jewish Community Center.
The Wall of Respect was a mural created in 1967 by Chicago artists representing the Organization of Black American Culture. It fostered Black pride, revitalized the neighborhood and gave birth to a national community mural movement. Some 49 years later, the Wall no longer exists having burnt with the building it was painted on. However, historic photos of the iconic wall were powerful enough to inspire a project in Kansas City that has engaged more than 150 people of all ages and ethnicities from every area of the metro area.
The Oshman Family Jewish Community Center of Palo Alto presents a sensational line-up for its 2018-2019 Arts & Dialogues series, featuring appearances by internationally acclaimed actors and musicians, in addition to world-class theatre and literature events. Beginning in September and continuing through next spring, the OFJCC will host captivating live performances by household names such as Tony and Emmy Award-winning actor Mandy Patinkin and renowned entertainer Alan Cumming.
Tony Award-winner Alice Ripley is set to perform her stage signatures and other famous songs at The Tucson Jewish Community Center tomorrow night, Saturday July 14 at 7:30p.m.
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