Crystal City Entertainment and Maimonides Fund have formally issued a request for proposals for the inaugural Jewish Writers’ Initiative, a national, year-long program to incubate commercial, Jewish-themed scripts for mainstream film, television and digital media platforms. The year-long program features seminars in Los Angeles, New York and Israel, along with monetary stipends and industry support….
Portland playwright Linda Alper’s new play about an adolescent who flees Nazi Europe and can find refuge only in Shanghai kicks off the fifth annual Proscenium Live Festival of New Work. Portland Shakespeare Project and Proscenium Journal present two days of fresh plays Aug. 3 and 4 (see schedule below). This year’s festival takes place…
In what has become Portland’s favorite outdoor concert of the summer season, Portland Summerfest’s Opera in the Park presents its 17th annual opera extravaganza at 6 pm, Aug. 4. Admission is free. Thousands of attendees will bask in the evening air in the outdoor Washington Park Amphitheater as Metropolitan Opera star Angela Meade returns to the SummerFest stage, singing…
Critically acclaimed, pioneering bluegrass band Nefesh Mountain will perform at The Old Church Concert Hall on July 31. Doors open at 7 pm, show starts at 8:00. The group last performed in Portland in 2017 for the MJCC’s outdoor summer concert series. Nefesh Mountain are on a 26-city tour from April to August of 2019. The group…
PHOTO: Left to right -Moshe Nafisi, BZ Ingber, Kolev Klein, Moshe Bloch compete in SKILL’IT Cook Off Hosted by Comedian Elon Gold. Cook Off will premiere on Kosher.com on July 4th weekend. New web series SKILL’IT premieres July 4 on Kosher.com It’s a chef-eat-chef world out there. When Kosher.com announced SKILL’IT West Coast, the latest…
Julie Hammond presents the Portland premiere of her show “Other Inland Empires” at Portland Playhouse June 26-30, 2019. When writer/director Julie Hammond learned that Gidget, the quintessential California girl and 1950s spark of a global surf boom, was really the Jewish daughter of Austro-Hungarian refugees, she began to imagine events in reverse. What would happen…
This summer, the 21st Annual JAW: A Playwrights Festival brings three new plays to The Armory for two weeks of script workshopping that will culminate in the JAW Big Weekend, where public staged readings of the scripts will be presented along with performances from local artists and classes. This year’s plays are Otto Frank by…
PHOTOS: Above, standing in front of the Hans Coper ceramics exhibit are, from left, OJMCHE Director Judy Margles, York Musuems Trust Ceramics Curator Helen Walsh, and exhibit guest curator Sandra Percival. At right, “Holocaust Remembered,” a mobile painting by Betty LaDuke is on public display for the first time in an exhibit of her early…
PHOTOS: Above, NW Dance Project Founding Artistic Director Sarah Slipper (photo by Michael Slobodian). At left, choreographer James Canfield (in hat) with NW Dance Project dancers Anthony Pucci (left) and Kody Jauron (photo by Blaine Truitt Covert). Last week the NW Dance Project hosted a preview of its “Summer Premieres,” a trio of new works…
Compiled by Deborah Moon Over the past six months, a wide assortment of Jewish-themed books have arrived at my doorstep to be stacked into a precarious pile on my desk. With summer leisure in the wind, it’s time to share some of these titles with you for your reading pleasure. KIDS Mommy, Who…
