By Zohar Tirosh-Polk
A wedding or a funeral, which is more important? That’s the main question in the
upcoming American premiere of “Winter Wedding” by the renowned Israeli playwright, Hanoch Levin, co- translated by David Willinger and Laurel Hessing. The play, opening at Theater for the New City on May 5 and running through May 22, is a dark comedy about the clash between two major life events and the wild family drama that ensues.
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By Zohar Tirosh-Polk
Heidi Latsky, head of
Heidi Latsky Dance and creator of
The Gimp Project is about to end her one-year artist-in-residency at
the JCC in Manhattan. After months of rehearsals, workshops with everyone from preschoolers to seniors, and tidbit performances in the lobby and other spaces in the JCC building, Latsky‘s final offering is “IF: A Work in Two Parts.”
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By Zohar Tirosh-Polk
Lawrence Wright, the renowned author and longtime staff member of The New Yorker, seems surprisingly fragile standing alone onstage in New York City’s 3-Legged Dog Art & Technology Center. Considering he is about to take a long, hard look at the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, especially as it pertains to Gaza, one can forgive the jitters.
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By Zohar Tirosh-Polk
With his film “My Trip To Al-Qaeda”
on HBO in September and his one-man show, “The Human Scale,” about to open in New York City, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and The New Yorker staff writer Lawrence Wright has a lot going on. During a short window between memorizing his lines and beginning rehearsals, he found time to answer a few questions about “The Human Scale,” which is based on
his experiences in Israel and the Gaza Strip last year. Directed by Oskar Eustis of the
Public Theater, the play opens on October 2 at
The New Yorker Festival and will continue its run at
3LD Arts and Technology Center until October 31.
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By Zohar Tirosh-Polk
Art Spiegelman’s world of powerful drawings and the Pilobolus Dance Theater’s playful style intersect in an unusual collaboration that challenged the Pulitzer Prize-winning author to move out of his downtown studio and his own head.
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