Put a Little Drama in your Life
RUN DATES: 11/13/15 - 12/10/15 VENUE: La Jolla Playhouse It seemed like a typical night on Broadway, 1923. But all hell was about to break loose. The vice squad not only closed down the production of “God of Vengeance,” they arrested the producer and 12 actors, and booked them on obscenity charges. It was a travesty, and it dogged the writer, Sholem Asch, for the rest of his life. His play had a profound effect on another playwright, Read More →
RUN DATES: 11/1/15 - 11/8/15 VENUE: Various She may have looked like a Yiddishe Mama, but she was a tough-as-nails leader and the indomitable Mother of a nation. That would be Golda Meir and the State of Israel. Golda’s story is expansive and impressive, and a small part of it is depicted in the 2003 stage-play, “Golda’s Balcony,” by William Gibson. Golda was born in 1898 in Kiev, Ukraine, the daughter of a poor carpenter. She never forgot the Read More →
He may have been born in a Czarist Russia shtetl, but all-American red-white-and-blue coursed through the veins of Irving Berlin. He’s generally considered to be one of the greatest songwriters in American history. As composer Jerome Kern put it, “Irving Berlin has no place in American music—he is American music.” Now, Hershey Felder, Montreal-born pianist, actor, playwright, composer, producer and director, is bringing Berlin to life in a special holiday presentation of “Hershey Felder as Irving Berlin” Read More →