Britta Lokting
By Britta Lokting
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Art The Inner Workings of Isaiah Sheffer
Whenever Isaiah Sheffer, the playwright and director who co-founded Symphony Space, worked in his home, he retreated to “The Mineshaft,” a spacious closet located near what was probably a dumb waiter at one point, furnished with a little desk. The makeshift office also accommodated suits, ties and Sheffer’s toolbox. Over the years, boxes of his…
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Culture Theater J’s New Boss Hopes To Steer Clear of Controversy
Almost a year after Theater J fired Ari Roth, its artistic director for 18 years, the Washington, D.C. theater company has appointed Adam Immerwahr to take over the position. Immerwaher, 33, says he has already begun scouting productions for next fall. He comes from the McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton, New Jersey, where he started…
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Culture Can Matzo Be the New Bagel?
At a press event at Streit’s Matzos in early March, Jill Zarin, dressed in sky-high black patent leather pumps and a crisp white sweater lined with navy blue stripes, and sporting an emerald snakeskin watch, displayed no qualms about interrupting the company’s three executive vice presidents, who are cousins, so she can answer questions from…
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Culture Joshua Cohen is Writing a Novel Live Online
Joshua Cohen, the Brooklyn-based writer whose latest, painstakingly-researched novel “Book of Numbers” in some ways echoed the Edward Snowden leaks by revealing the relationship between the Internet and government surveillance, is now writing a novel in real time on the website , named for the title of the book which is based on the Charles…
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Art A Wandering Sukkah Draws Curious Onlookers
There is a 1960s style sukkah bolted atop a black 2003 Chevrolet pickup with Connecticut plates driving through all five boroughs this week that looks unlike any wooden hut I made in Hebrew School during the holiday of Sukkot. It actually brought to mind the pattern of a vintage faux Pucci turtleneck I own and…
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News Meet the 4 Jewish Winners of MacArthur ‘Genius’ Grants
The John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation picks an annual class of between 20 and 30 fellows from all types of vocations and professions who will receive a sizable (this year $625,000) and unrestricted grant to help further their work over five years. Known generally as the “genius” grants, nominations and discussions are confidential…
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News How an Eruv fight set secular Jews against Orthodox in Hamptons summer paradise
Tensions rose when opponents argued the eruv’s presence would ruin Southampton — even though they can't see it
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