Out and About: David Mamet on ‘A Life in the Theater’; the Big Band’s Big Comeback
A puppet from an exhibit at Holon?s Puppet Theater Center in July. Image by Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images
By Ezra Glinter October 18, 2010
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The once-seedy Tel Aviv suburb of Holon has become a major tourist destination thanks to its arts scene.
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The Milken Archive of Jewish Music has launched a virtual museum.
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A Jewish big band in New York’s East Village is attracting jazz talent from all over the Tri-State Region.
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British Jewish filmmaker Mike Leigh has canceled a trip to Israel on account of the loyalty oath.
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The Royal Winnipeg Ballet, in contrast, is celebrating its 70th anniversary in Tel Aviv.
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David Mamet talks about “A Life in the Theater,” his 1977 play that opened on Broadway for the first time last week.
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Jewish American novelist Belva Plain, Warsaw-born Jewish mathematician Benoît B. Mandelbrot and renowned legal scholar Louis Henkin have died.
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Sanford Pinsker says a mishebeyrach for Albert Murray.
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How “German protestantism, high literacy, well organised universities and a Jewish citizenry” all contributed to the concept of “Germanness” well before the formation of the German state.
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