Theater & Performing Arts
Hard times in the Bronx with ‘Awake and Sing!’
By DORIS RUBENSTEIN What song is playwright Clifford Odets referring to in his 1935 drama Awake and Sing!? For most...
Frankenstein: A play for a perilous time
by MAX SPARBER Community News Editor Minnesota has an odd taste for Frankenstein’s monster, the towering revived corpse from Mary...
MJTC presents 40 characters in search of a one-woman show
By DORIS RUBENSTEIN Having been intimately involved in a one-woman play last year (Deborah Yarchun’s A Pickle starring the amazing Angela...
The Minnesota Fringe Festival offers Mysteries, space aliens and a look at death
By DORIS RUBENSTEIN Last year’s Fringe Festival was replete with offerings with substantial Jewish connections and content. While there are...
The sisters Berlovitz
By DORIS RUBENSTEIN Sisters Sonya and Barbra Berlovitz have been important parts of the Twin Cities theatre and arts scene...
Deborah Stein: Two Jews, one coat
By DORIS RUBENSTEIN Earlier this year, the Twin Cities Illusion Theatre company presented a world premiere play with strong Jewish...
Yehuda Hyman: An ‘Indecent’ dance
by MAX SPARBER Community News Editor Paula Vogel’s play Indecent, opening Feb. 23 at the Guthrie, presents a special, explicitly...
Paula Vogel: Guardian of culture
by MAX SPARBER Community News Editor Paula Vogel, who has long been one of America’s premier playwrights, nonetheless has experienced...
David Margulies: Betraying a mentor
By DORIS RUBENSTEIN Collected Stories, opening Feb. 24 at the Minnesota Jewish Theatre Company, has only two characters, but the...
Yiddish Vinkl will discuss ‘God of Vengeance’ and ‘Indecent’
The Yiddish Vinkl presents a discussion and readings from Got fun Nekome (God of Vengeance), by Yiddish playwright Sholem Asch,...
