Helen Epstein
The title of Richard Linklater’s extraordinary film did not lure me to the theater. A friend’s recommendation did.
Chester Theatre Company productions often remind me of concerts in a chamber music series that feature musicians who have worked together for long periods of time.
June Moon is a piece of satirical fluff with 27 characters, lots of piano playing, and a half-dozen memorable lines.
YUP’s uneven Jewish Lives offers a series of short, accessible biographies that could become a significant literary mural, showcasing the scope of Jewish culture.
Artist/scholar Elizabeth Lennard has managed to evoke the breadth of Edith Wharton’s life and work in a relatively short and vivid film.
Multi-talented performer Ibrahim Miari has written an insightful and funny one-man show that draws on his own life as the son of an Israeli Jewish mother and Palestinian Moslem father born in what is now the Israeli city of Akko.
Motti Lerner’s characters succeed in making both the secular and ultra-religious life appear rewarding and believable.
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