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Theater J
Theater J is a professional theater company located in Washington, DC, founded to present works that "celebrate the distinctive urban voice and social vision that are part of the Jewish cultural legacy". Organization Hailed by ''The New York Times'' as “The Premier Theater for Premieres,” and recipient of 61 Helen Hayes nominations and awards, Theater J has emerged as a Jewish theater on the national scene. A program of the Washington DC Jewish Community Center, Theater J performs in the Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater, part of the Washington, D.C. Jewish Community Center's Morris Cafritz Center for the Arts in D.C.'s Dupont Circle neighborhood. Founding Artistic Director was Martin Blank (1990-1993). In December 2014, Ari Roth, Theater J's artistic director of 18 years, was fired after a series of widely publicized disagreements. Between January 2014 and November 2015, Shirley Serotsky (previously Associate Artistic Director) served as Theater J's Acting Artistic Director ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
16th Street NW
16th Street Northwest is a prominent north–south thoroughfare in the northwest quadrant of Washington, D.C. Part of Pierre L'Enfant's design for the city, 16th Street begins just north of the White House across Lafayette Park at H Street and continues due north in a straight line passing K Street, Scott Circle, Meridian Hill Park, Rock Creek Park, and the Walter Reed Army Medical Center before crossing Eastern Avenue into Silver Spring, Maryland, where it ends at Georgia Avenue. From K Street to the District line, 16th Street is part of the National Highway System. The Maryland portion of the street is designated Maryland State Highway 390. The entire street is long. The Washington meridian, a prime meridian once in use in the United States, follows the street. Part of the street is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Sixteenth Street Historic District. and In June 2020, the section immediately north of the White House was renamed Black Lives Matter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theodore Bikel
Theodore Meir Bikel ( ; May 2, 1924 – July 21, 2015) was an Austrian-American actor, folk singer, musician, composer, unionist, and political activist. He appeared in films, including '' The African Queen'' (1951), ''Moulin Rouge'' (1952), '' The Kidnappers'' (1953), ''The Enemy Below'' (1957), ''I Want to Live!'' (1958), ''My Fair Lady'' (1964), ''The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming'' (1966), and ''200 Motels'' (1971). For his portrayal of Sheriff Max Muller in '' The Defiant Ones'' (1958), he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He made his stage debut in '' Tevye the Milkman'' in Tel Aviv, Israel, when he was in his teens. He later studied acting at Britain's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and made his London stage debut in 1948 and in New York in 1955. He was also a widely recognized and recorded folk singer and guitarist. In 1959, he co-founded the Newport Folk Festival, and created the role of Captain von Trapp opposite Mary Martin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avant-garde
The avant-garde (; In 'advance guard' or ' vanguard', literally 'fore-guard') is a person or work that is experimental, radical, or unorthodox with respect to art, culture, or society.John Picchione, The New Avant-garde in Italy: Theoretical Debate and Poetic Practices' (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004), p. 64 . It is frequently characterized by aesthetic innovation and initial unacceptability.Kostelanetz, Richard, ''A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes'', Routledge, May 13, 2013 The avant-garde pushes the boundaries of what is accepted as the norm or the '' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hadassah Magazine
''Hadassah Magazine'' is an American magazine published by the Hadassah Women's Zionist Organization of America. It covers Israel, the Jewish world, and subjects of interest to American Jewish women. It was established in 1914. Esther G. Gottesman a long-serving member of the Hadassah Board of Directors, is credited with developing the organization's newsletter into a widely respected, mass-circulation magazine. The periodical made the transition from a newsletter produced by volunteers, to a professional magazine staffed by salaried journalists in 1947 under the leadership of executive editor Jesse Z. Lurie, a journalist who had previously worked for the ''Palestine Post'' and who would edit ''Hadassah'' for the next 33 years. In 1986, when the magazine had a circulation of 385,000, ''Hadassah'' banned cigarette advertising. The magazine's chairman, Rose Goldman, told the ''New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dramaturgy
Dramaturgy is the study of dramatic composition and the representation of the main elements of drama on the stage. The term first appears in the eponymous work ''Hamburg Dramaturgy'' (1767–69) by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. Lessing composed this collection of essays on the principles of drama while working as the world's first dramaturge at the Hamburg National Theatre. Dramaturgy is distinct from play writing and directing, although the three may be practiced by one individual. Some dramatists combine writing and dramaturgy when creating a drama. Others work with a specialist, called a dramaturge, to adapt a work for the stage. Dramaturgy may also be broadly defined as "adapting a story to actable form." Dramaturgy gives a performance work foundation and structure. Often the dramaturge's strategy is to manipulate a narrative to reflect the current Zeitgeist through cross-cultural signs, theater- and film-historical references to genre, ideology, questions of gender and racial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aaron Posner
Aaron Posner is an American playwright and theater director. He was co-founder of the Arden Theatre Company in Philadelphia and was the artistic director of Two River Theatre from 2006 to 2010. He has directed over 100 productions at major regional theater companies across the country. He has won many awards including six Helen Hayes Awards, two Barrymore Awards, the Outer Critics Circle Award, the John Gassner Prize, a Joseph Jefferson Award,a Bay Area Theatre Award, an Eliot Norton Award, and many more. Biography Born in Madison, Wisconsin, and raised in Eugene, Oregon, Posner is married to actress Erin Weaver, who he met when she was a student of his at University of the Arts. They have one daughter. Posner has adapted novels as plays, and later created new variations of classic plays, including some by Shakespeare and Chekhov. Among Posner's best-known adaptions are ''The Chosen'' (1999), based on Chaim Potok's 1967 novel of the same name, and ''My Name Is Asher Lev'' (2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Third (play)
''Third'' is the last play written by Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein, which premiered Off-Broadway in 2005. The play involves a female professor and her interactions with a student. Production history ''Third'' premiered at Washington D.C.'s Theater J, in January–February 2004 as a one-act play, directed by Michael Barakiva, and featuring Kathryn Grody and Eddie Boroevich. The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts production opened Off-Broadway at the Mitzi Newhouse Theater, in previews on September 29, 2005 and closing on December 18, 2005. It was directed by Daniel J. Sullivan, a frequent artistic collaborator with Wasserstein. The cast of ''Third'' included Dianne Wiest as Laurie Jameson and Charles Durning. Jason Ritter, actor-son of John Ritter, played the part of Woodson Bull, III, the student accused of plagiarism. Ritter won the Clarence Derwent Award and the Martin E. Segal Award for his performance of the title character. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Greenberg
Richard Greenberg (born February 22, 1958) is an American playwright and television writer known for his subversively humorous depictions of middle-class American life. He has had more than 25 plays premiere on and Off-Broadway in New York City and eight at the South Coast Repertory Theatre in Costa Mesa, California, including '' The Violet Hour'', ''Everett Beekin'', and ''Hurrah at Last.'' Greenberg is perhaps best known for his 2003 Tony Award winning play, '' Take Me Out'', about the conflicts that arise after a Major League Baseball player nonchalantly announces to the media that he is gay. The play premiered in London and ran in New York as the first collaboration between England's Donmar Warehouse and New York's Public Theater. After it transferred to Broadway in early 2003, ''Take Me Out'' won widespread critical acclaim for Greenberg and many prestigious awards. Background and education Greenberg grew up in East Meadow, New York, a middle-class Long Island town in Na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros
Alexandra I. Gersten-Vassilaros (born 1960) is an American playwright and actress. She is the co-author, with Theresa Rebeck, of Omnium Gatherum which was a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Gersten-Vassilaros is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. She is a member of Actors Studio and HB Playwrights Foundation. She is a niece of theatrical producer Bernard Gersten. Selected works ;As playwright * ''My Thing of Love'' 1995 * ''Supple in Combat'' 1996 * ''The Airport Play'' 1999 * ''Mother Of Invention'' 2003 * ''Omnium Gatherum'' (co-author) 2003 * ''The Wedding Play'' 2004 * ''The Argument'' 2005 ;As actress * ''Alone Together'' by Lawrence Roman Music Box Theatre 1984 * ''Loose Ends'' by Michael Weller McGinn-Cazale Theatre 1988 * ''Ladies'' by Eve Ensler Theater at St. Clement's Church 1989 * ''Fear, Anxiety & Depression'' written and directed by Todd Solondz (Film) 1989https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0169895/ Fear, Anxiety & Depression (imdb) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liz Lerman
Liz Lerman (born 1947 in Los Angeles, CA) is an American choreographer and founder of Liz Lerman Dance Exchange . Called by the Washington Post “the source of an epochal revolution in the scope and purposes of dance art,” she and her dancers have collaborated with shipbuilders, physicists, construction workers, and cancer researchers. In 2002 she won the MacArthur Genius Grant; in 2009, the Jack P. Blaney Award in Dialogue acknowledged her outstanding leadership, creativity, and dedication to melding dialogue with dance; and the 2017 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award. Early life Liz Lerman was born in Los Angeles, California on Christmas Day, 1947. Her father Philip was an organizer and activist, and her mother was an artist. Though her family moved several times when she was growing up, much of her early education was spent in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. When she was 14 years old, she danced in Washington, DC, for President Kennedy as part of a group from the National Music Camp in I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yehuda Hyman
Yehuda Hyman is an American playwright, dancer, choreographer, actor, and poet. Life and Work Yehuda Hyman was born and raised in Los Angeles to immigrant parents from Poland and Russia. Hyman got his start in theater at age 17 in the chorus of a Broadway show. He began making dances in New York City at the Riverside Dance Festival and Washington Square Church. His work has been produced at the McCarter Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, San Diego Repertory Theater, and Highways Performance Space among others. Honors include two NEA Grants, Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays Award, Jerome Fellowship and grants from the Center for Jewish Culture and Creativity. He performed his solo piece, The Mad 7 at the NYC Fringe the JCC Manhattan and across the U.S. and performed with Target Margin Theater in NYC at HERE Arts Center, Chocolate Factory and the Bushwick Star). He was a 2013/14 Artist Fellow at the LABA House of Study/14St Y where he developed his full-length theatrical memoir, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacquelyn Reingold
Jacquelyn Reingold is an American playwright, screenwriter, and producer. She has written multiple plays and worked for television. Her television career started with writing for HBO. Career Reingold was a dramatic writing teacher at Ohio University, New York University, and Columbia University. She is a part of the Ensemble Studio Theatre, including its Playwrights Unit. She is an alumnus of New Dramatists and co-founded the Honor Roll! group which advocates for women playwrights who are over 40 years old. On September 26, 1995, Reingold and poet Veronica Patterson held a reading in Clearmont, Wyoming, at the YMCA Youth Center. She wrote the play ''String Fever'', based around string theory, in 2003 for the Public Understanding of Science and Technology program from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Reingold said that she knew nothing about string theory before writing the play. On March 31, 2004, her play ''2B or Not 2B'' played as a public radio broadcast for Playing on Air. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
