arts and entertainment
Israeli dramatist Hanoch Levin’s ‘Yaacobi & Leidental’ in U.S. premiere
March 22, 2023Even as we laugh at the antics of the brash Yaacobi, the timid shlemiel Leidental, and the not-as-sweet-as-she-looks Ruth Shahash, we are reminded of our own shared human frailty in the face of desire and suffering.
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‘The Secret Garden,’ musical created by two stellar women, revived in L.A.
March 7, 2023Time hailed the original production as “elegant, entrancing... The best American musical of the Broadway season.”
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‘Southern Girls’: A ‘woke’ play suitable for banning in today’s Florida
February 1, 2023“The playwrights who wrote this absolutely lived it. The play is very authentic.”
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‘Hercules on the Thermodon’: Antonio Vivaldi’s baroque battle of the sexes
January 12, 2023Perhaps the opera is meant to disarm the most polarized tendencies between men and women in a highly stratified society that gave women little power.
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‘Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical’: Thoroughly modern Matilda
January 9, 2023You simply cannot escape the zeitgeist of Matilda. Against all odds, Matilda Wormwood in the new Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical is an unqualified triumph.
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