Unique coming of age
Richard Newman and Gina Chiarelli in Bar Mitzvah Boy, at Pacific Theatre until April 14. (photo by Damon Calderwood) The number 13 means different things to different people. To a baker, it’s that extra pastry that he adds to a…
Arts & Culture
Miller play remains relevant
Arthur Miller’s Incident at Vichy is set in a Nazi detention centre in Vichy France, where a group of prisoners are being held. (photo from Theatre in the Raw) Theatre in the Raw is bringing Arthur Miller’s Incident at Vichy…
Inspired by cultures, nature
Artist Monica Gewurz’s “Woven Tallit” was inspired by her father. Judaism’s history, traditions and clothing and my Peruvian upbringing are always latent in my inspirations,” artist Monica Gewurz told the Independent. Gewurz will be one of more than 90 exhibitors…
Separate but connected lives
“I remember the deep pleasure I had as a child when I first began reading,” author Méira Cook told the Independent. “It was like climbing into a book and pulling the covers down over my head. When I write, I…
Music that entertains, heals
(photo from jaegerreidmusic.com) An unexpected kindness reignites a passion for music, which offers an outlet for grief, as well as a new career path. A chance meeting turns into a mutually supportive, productive and enduring musical collaboration. We often forget…
A grandfather’s sins
Prof. Roger Frie’s Not in My Family rises above the merely personal (image from cenes.ubc.ca) Forty-three years ago, at Vancouver’s first Holocaust Symposium, for which I was the chair, the keynote speaker was the Lithuanian partisan fighter Leon Kahn. His presentation to…
Londres foresaw fate of Jews
Albert Londres was a Parisian journalist born in 1884. He became an international reporter who chose to chronicle human suffering and expose injustice and cruelty. He denounced inhuman conditions in mental asylums, the ordeals of black workers, conditions in a…
The telling of stories
Left to right: Yoo Ra Kang (Asaka, Mother of the Earth), Ricardo Pequenino (Agwe, God of Water), Alexandra Quispe (Erzulie, Goddess of Love) and Sari Rosofsky (Papa Ge, Sly Demon of Death) in Fabulist Theatre’s production of Once On This…
Foxtrot steps on toes
Itay Exlroad as Dancer Soldier. (photo by Giora Bejach, Courtesy Sony Pictures Classics) An audacious work of art that melds raw emotion and absurdist allegory into a blistering assessment of contemporary Israel, Samuel Maoz’s Foxtrot deserves to be seen and…
Exploring the science of life
Amy Amantea and Jake Anthony in Sequence, which runs March 14-24 at Presentation House Theatre. (photo by Tim Matheson) “To direct this play requires a willingness to grapple with the concepts, to accept that sometimes questions are more important than…
