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The award-winning music program “Silent Tears: The Last Yiddish Tango,” based on the poetry and writings of women who survived the Holocaust, will come to Pittsburgh this Sunday. On Holocaust Remembrance Day, Rodef Shalom Congregation will present the concert, which has toured in Europe and North America over the past ....
The critically acclaimed performance of Tango in the Dark opens the 38th season of the Cornwall Concert Series at Aultsville Theatre on Saturday, September 16, 2023 at 7:30 pm., featuring the PointeTango dancers, Alexander Richardson and Erin Scott-Kafadar. ....
Ask Naomi Newman what it’s like to hit the big 9-0, and she gives a straight answer. “It feels similar to 89,” she says dryly. “The experience is quite ordinary.” “Ordinary” is not a term normally associated with Naomi Newman. As an actor, director, playwright and especially as a co-founder of the pioneering Traveling Jewish Theater, she secured a spot in the Bay Area pantheon of performance art. So when her 90th birthday loomed last Dec. 24, her family, friends and colleagues couldn’t pass up the opportunity to throw a party. It was a Zoomunion for the ages “joyous and affirming and beautiful” according to the birthday gal. “It was like I needed to be in touch with everyone in my life.” The festivities included kind words from colleagues past and present, and plenty of music, even a reworking of Leonard Cohen’s “Suzanne” with the name changed to Naomi. ....