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PUBLISHERS

DECEMBER 2021 | KISLEV • TEVET 5782 | THE ARTS ISSUE

Mark Edelstein and Dr. Mark Moss EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

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ASSISTANT EDITOR

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR

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CONTRIBUTING WRITERS

Features 24 Barry Edelstein Talks the Bright, Celebratory

and Razzmatazz Season 2022 of the Old Globe

26 SDMA’s “Masters of Photography: The Garner Collection;”

A Reflection on Photography’s Role in History, Society and the Future

31 Marilyn Michaels: Show Business Royalty

Emily Bartell, Linda Bennett, Leorah Gavidor, Emily Gould, Judith Fein (Senior Travel Correspondent), Paul Ross (Senior Travel Photographer), Patricia Goldblatt, Pat Launer, Sharon Rosen Leib, Andrea Simantov, Marnie Macauley, Rabbi Jacob Rupp, Saul Levine, Rachael Eden, Sybil Kaplan.

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9 From the Editor | Walkability

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16 Examined Life | The Delights and Disturbances of Dreams 18 Israeli Lifestyle | La-Di-Dah 20 Personal Development and Judaism | The Process 22 Religion | A $12k Lesson

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10 Our Town

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12 The Scene 14 What’s Up Online 35 Food

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36 Local Offerings 40 News COVER “Basket of Light, Sumpango, Guatemala” by Flor Garduño.

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From the Editor JACQUELINE BULL

Walkability At time of writing the UC San Diego Blue Extension announced its opening activities for Nov. 21.

When I moved to San Diego in 2017, the Blue Line Extension was a hot topic. It broke ground in 2016 and the feeling was that the extension would be ready “any day now” and that a quick jaunt from downtown to La Jolla was going to be de rigeur in the near future.

This “any day now” feeling has persisted for the last four years and I’m astonished that day has actually arrived. This is not because I lacked trust in the parties involved to complete the project, but rather that I lacked the imagination and faith in the changing of the status quo.

It reminded me of growing up in southeast Michigan when people were constantly telling me “Detroit is getting better”— for 20 years. Whether this intangible and indefinable thing is or is not happening is not what I’m referring to here; I’m referring to the concept of the actual phrase “Detroit is getting better.” It seemed like it was a throwaway comment that people found fun to say. I found the idea of something being in progress but never actually changing to be fascinating.

I’m a fully committed pedestrian. I made the choice to be carless a couple years into living in San Diego.

This has not been without its foibles. The relationship between California and public transportation is a bit of a funny one. Car is certainly king here. This relationship has been changing in San Diego lately

with a couple of things: the extension of the permits for outdoor dining on the streets, the city council’s decision to remove parking minimums and of course the Blue Line extension.

It seems that our city is starting to be more friendly to pedestrians like myself. And I hope that our citizens with vehicles will come on board, especially considering the Blue Line extension should translate into less Monday–Friday commute traffic.

On a national level, the infrastructure bill will improve the facilities of both pedestrians and motorists though it is too soon to tell where, how and when.

I could wax poetic on the beauty of walking and the freedom of being a pedestrian and using public transportation, but on a more macro level, I’m interested in the city becoming less a collection of isolated neighborhoods and more of a real strong community.

The idea of being a connected and thriving community is on the lips of nearly every interview that dots the SDJJ issues.

Time will tell how these changes take shape, but personally I’m striving to have more imagination and more trips to La Jolla. A

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Our Town

by Linda Bennett and Emily Bartell We are so excited for the publication of our dear friend, Andrew Friedenberg’s new book, “Celebrity War Stories — Confessions of A Movie Studio Publicist.” It is a truly entertaining read, filled with animated anecdotes.

In this book, this former regional movie studio publicist shares first-hand experiences of working with Charlton Heston, Brooke Shields, Dustin Hoffman and other A-list celebrities.

When you are celebrating 85 years, an extraordinary get-together is called for! How wonderful to celebrate Marsha Stein-Hicks with so many friends and family in attendance for a backyard fiesta! Some of those raising a glass in her honor were Don Hicks, Jane Zeer, Matt & Carrie Colona, Rabbi Marty & Anita Lawson, Pat Cooper, Nancy Geist, Gerri Plotkinand, Barbara Pollack & Ron Reff.

On Oct. 6, Jewish Family Service held its Annual “Friends of The Family” event, to honor their most generous supporters. Held in the lovely La Jolla backyard residence of Michael & Susanna Flaster, attendance was limited to 50 with others joining in through the Internet. Some of those seen were Gary & Elissa Davis, Loretta Adams, Marcia Hazan, Joel Smith & Stephanie Schiff, Brian & Danielle Miller, Marsha Berkson & Jack Berkman, Nadja Kauder, Bob & Lauren Resnick, Elyse Sollander and JFS CEO Michael Hopkins.

Mazel Tov to Bert Drummond on becoming a Bar Mitzvah at Temple Beth Israel on Oct. 2. Bert’s parents Frank & Laura Drummond along with grandparents Ellen Benkle and Marshall & Beth Nadel were beaming with pride. Bert is the Great Grandson of Lynn & Bert (z”l) Epsten. Bert’s Great Great Grandfather Henry Weinberger was a founding member of Temple Beth Israel!

Junior Achievement of San Diego recently honored Lesley & David Cohn and Constance Carroll into their San Diego Business Hall of Fame, for their immense contributions to the San Diego community.

The San Diego Music Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony was held on Nov. 5. We were delighted to be on hand to applaud Yale Strom, violinist, composer, filmmaker, writer, photographer, playwright and pioneer klezmer revivalist, into this new class of inductees. In his acceptance, Yale shared stories and gave an enthusiastic performance along with long-standing members of his group, “Hot Pstromi,” Jeff Pekarek and Fred Benedetti, to a thoroughly engrossed audience.

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Mazel Tov to Jane & Ingo Muschenetz on their son Emmet becoming a Bar Mitzvah at Temple EmanuEl on Oct. 16. Grandparents Bella Veitzman and Karen Muschenetz looked on with pride.

Mazel Tov to Alex & Raquel Perlman Guss on the birth of their second child Sasha Pearl Guss. Born on Aug. 27.

Sasha’s grandparents are Ron & Monica Perlman, Deborah Guss, and David Guss & Susanne Lodel, thrilled older sibling is Ella (22mths).

Mazel Tov to Charles Colona & Gabi Tukeman on their marriage! Rabbi Benj Fried of Temple EmanuEl officiated the ceremony on Oct. 10 at the Callaway Winery in Temecula. Proud parents, Carrie & Mat Colona, and Sally & Mark Tukeman were glowing with delight! The happy couple are currently residing in Houston, TX.

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The Scene

by Jacqueline Bull

“ Field of Dreams” Gala The 2021 University of San Diego (USD) Founders Gala “Field of Dreams” was held on Nov. 13 at Petco Park.

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There were speeches by President of USD, James T. Harris, and Mayor Todd Gloria and music and entertainment from NRG Band.

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USD staff, alumni and local philanthropists gathered to raise money for USD student scholarships.

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But after the Abraham Accords, in which Israel signed diplomatic

Sweden’s national theater stages its first ever Yiddish production Actors in this weekend’s production of “Waiting for Godot” at the Royal Dramatic Theater in Stockholm performed neither in the classic play’s original English nor in Swedish translation.

Rather, they were speaking Yiddish, a language spoken by few Swedes but increasingly cherished by many.

The Yiddish version of Samuel Beckett’s classic absurdist play, translated by Shane Baker, premiered in 2013 through the New Yiddish Rep, a theater company in New York City, under the direction of Moshe Yassur,

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a Holocaust survivor whose career in Yiddish theater dates to his prewar childhood in Romania. It has toured as far afield as Paris and Enniskillen in Northern Ireland.

The performances marked its debut in Sweden, and the first time ever that a play in Yiddish was staged at Sweden’s national theater company — the only home that its local backers considered.

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agreements to normalize relations with the United Arab Emirates, and the peace agreements with other Arab countries that followed, the need for Aravrit, Turkenich’s script that allows both Hebrew and Arabic to be read from the same text, has expanded. The sky is now the limit for Turkenich’s project.

Israel approves national budget, averting new government’s collapse and repeat election In what was seen as a crucial test in Israel’s longstanding governing crisis, the country’s lawmakers managed to approve a national budget for the first time in more than three years on Thursday.

A failure to do so by a Nov. 14 deadline would have meant the collapse of Israel’s new government and a fifth national election since 2019.

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EXAMINED LIFE

OUR EMOTIONAL FOOTPRINT

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The Delights and Disturbances of Dreams “To Sleep, Perchance to Dream,” are the famous words Hamlet uttered during that exquisite Shakespearean play. Beautifully written and stated, they touch a nerve with all of us who have entered the magical, wondrous, yet sometimes disturbing world of dreaming.

The fact is we humans all dream to some extent. This is especially so (but not exclusively) during the stage of sleep called REM (Rapid Eye Movement), when electroencephalographic (EEG) recordings and brain scans can track when we are dreaming. But science has not yet fully explained the neurophysiological origins of our dreams.

No single ‘dream center’ appears to exist in the brain, dreams can “light up” different parts of the brain, and even animals have REM sleep and so the causes and origins of dreaming are still puzzling, but you wouldn’t know this given all that has been discussed, written and composed about the subject.

References to dreams are as old as the human use of words to convey thoughts and feelings and to describe these nocturnal experiences. There are papyrus and stone-etched hieroglyphic records and references dating back to the Third Millennium BCE in scripts like Mesopotamian, Babylonian, Sumerian, Aramaic and other ancient tongues, about our dream states and their meanings.

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The contents of dreams are seen in the histories of all religions and cultures and have been studied (oneirology) in terms of their current meanings, explanations of past events and predictions of the future. And they have played major roles in literary and cultural fantasias.

What is remarkable to me is that audiences and readers are invariably stimulated and moved when dreams play key roles in scenarios and plot lines.

References to dreams are as old as the human use of words to convey thoughts and feelings and to describe these nocturnal experiences.

Sigmund Freud, the avowed father of psychoanalysis, attributed in his book “The Interpretation of Dreams” symbolic meanings to inanimate objects to fit his theories of psychosexual development. For example, cylindrical objects could represent the phallic symbol of a penis or masculinity, while curved, soft or capacious objects might symbolize the womb or femininity.

Another pioneer, Carl Jung, theorized that the dreams of his patients were particularly important in the exploration of cultural and spiritual meanings and themes.

But doctrinaire “dream interpretation” which assigns exact meanings and symbolism to dreams is no longer considered valid by most theoreticians and psychotherapists. But people’s dream experiences and their reactions to them can often provoke significant new thoughts and feelings which can be meaningful and helpful.

Rigid “dream-interpretation” may no longer be “concretized” as “fact,” but the examination of dream content and a patient’s or client’s related cognitive and emotional reactions are still widely used in a variety of psychotherapeutic approaches. The mutual exploration of reactions to dreams is seen by some as a “window into unconsciousness,” revealing feelings and thoughts which are important and yet may heretofore be unknown or ‘hidden’ from us.

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La-Di-Dah Something was eating at me and I couldn’t access it. You know the feeling? When everything seems in order, the bank hasn’t called, your children aren’t in jail, your husband doesn’t appear to be harboring smarmy secrets, the car passed inspection, your jeans still fit. Even the government I didn’t vote for has passed a budget.

Hamas is quiet.

Still. I couldn’t put a finger on the subtle discomfort of all not being right in my world. As I sat on the open mirpeset before reciting the morning prayers, my concentration wasn’t as it could have been. I was distracted by the rumble of an idling school bus, shouts of street cleaners, the clamor of unloading vegetable and bread trucks, a raven’s caw, prayers from the Moroccan synagogue below. It wasn’t as if I were a prodigal daughter under siege. I embraced the distractions and therein lies the rub: A recognition that sometimes I’m either scared of or uninterested in prayer.

I couldn’t remember what I worried about before Covid infected everything including simcha planning, visiting aging relatives, dating, synagogue attendance and shabbat dinners. For many of us the

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constant “rethinking” of how to earn our livelihoods became exhausting.

A close friend just resigned her longtime government post because she can’t bear spending another day doing what she doesn’t love. When I asked if she fears not meeting her monthly mortgage obligation, she answered, “I’ll figure it out after next month, when I actually leave. It’s too much now. I need time to think.”

Suddenly I was aware of how often I’ve both heard and uttered the phrase, “I need time to think.” Had I misjudged the imposed intensity of so many months locked in, away from an office and social grind, as ‘times to think’? Many of us didn’t think but, instead, treaded water.

We gasped in disbelief and awaited the All Clear or Clear Enough to resume lifeas-we-knew-it that would never return to life-as-we-knew-it. Throughout my modest travels, I’ve encountered many who spent the quieter, fearful days of full-blown uncertainty not planning but, rather, filling the days with the safer content of binge-watching Netflix and baking shortbread. The days ticked off at sunset and a collective “Phew” enveloped the land(s). Some didn’t make it; children stopped learning, marital partners bowed out, many grew fat. “Time to think” was replaced by “Let’s make it through” and a cacophony of quiet-terror that filled crevices that once housed curiosity and the subsequent energies that allow miracles to occur.

All grew to megaeerie proportions when another friend explained that she couldn’t hire a housekeeper or begin a half-time editing project until after her parents’ upcoming visit because she needed time to think. Why is it eerie?

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PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT AND JUDAISM

THIS WAY TO EDEN

by Rachel Eden | rachel.s.eden@gmail.com

The Process Most Americans will be winding down this month in anticipation of vacations and end-of-year closures.

Simultaneously, many will over-indulge thanks to the lineup of Halloween candy discounts, Thanksgiving feasts and Hanukkah or Christmas donuts and fruitcakes. Plus, it’s winter, so bikinis (for those who wear them at all) are a distant memory and sweaters cover up the midnight snack indiscretions.

At this precise moment, when the belts feel particularly tight, energy is sluggish and stress spikes while self-esteem plummets (cue family drama thanks to aforementioned holiday meals), Jan. 1 comes into full view.

New Years is as famous for resolutions as it is for the ball dropping at midnight in Times Square. About one in four Americans made New Year’s Resolutions in 2020. The bad news is that despite the staggering number of people who make resolutions, only 8% reportedly stick to them.

Why are we so adept at making resolutions and yet ill-equipped to keep them? Our ease around creating commitment feels natural, but the process of change is a formidable opponent. The truth is the anatomy of change is misunderstood. There are two fundamental realities about progress that might clear up considerable confusion and make way for better results.

Take Danielle Patera for example.

At 340 lbs, Patera struggled on a hike with her family back in 2017. She made a decision to buckle down and began

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introducing more fresh fruits, vegetables and lean proteins into her diet. Between her new eating habits and undertaking an exercise regimen several times each week, Patera dropped 153 lbs and was quite pleased with her newly active, fit lifestyle.

Breakthrough moments are often the result of many previous actions which build up the potential required to unleash a major change.

Then, in 2020, COVID hit and she found herself growing lax with some of her healthy habits. She also suffered a knee injury which made exercise more difficult. She found her weight had increased by 30 lbs rather quickly. In her words: “A lot of things happened in those two years and to only be 30 pounds up from Onederland (any weight 199 pounds or less) to me is great. A new relationship, moving in with my significant other, learning balance between our eating habits, torn Achilles tendon...Then the year of 2020 pandemic, going from being on my feet a good portion of the day to sitting at home for work in my apartment getting little-to-no steps in

during the work hours.” What Patera learned was that progress is not a linear path. The process, one that includes ups and downs, is exactly what progress is expected to look like and any expectation for forward movement alone will only add stress and lessen energy focused on improving.

So, rule number one about your resolution: Honor the process; it’s not a straight line.

Now, for rule number two. In the book, “Atomic Habits,” James Clear uses a great analogy, “Imagine that you have an ice cube sitting on the table in front of you. The room is cold and you can see your breath. It is currently 25 degrees. Ever so slowly, the room begins to heat up — 26 degrees, 27, 28, the ice cube is still sitting on the table in front of you, 29 degrees, 30, 31, still nothing has happened, then 32 degrees.

The ice begins to melt. A one-degree shift seemingly no different from the temperature increase before it has unlocked a huge change. Breakthrough moments are often the result of many previous actions which build up the potential required to unleash a major change. This pattern shows up everywhere.”

One of the biggest barriers to change is dejection. The conclusion that if a person’s effort appears ineffectual is why not quit? The obvious issue with many who fail to follow through on their resolutions is that they quit trying.

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Personal Development continued month of biking to work and decide to stop. Pretty soon, their commitment to good habits slowly loosens until it falls away altogether.

To create meaningful change, new behaviors must persist. And persist.

And persist some more. Sometimes a plan needs to be tweaked or adjusted, but relentlessly exerting effort creates inevitability around results.

So rule number two: Change requires sustainable, no-quit new behaviors.

Most fail to follow through on their New Year’s resolutions because they underestimate the importance of their own process. Their focus is disproportionately placed on results and the process is simply an unappetizing means to an end. Success and change require honoring your unique process,

acknowledging the normalcy of ups and downs, patiently and relentlessly navigating thresholds for breakthroughs.

As for Patera, she is back at the gym and motivating her audience. She shares: “You kind of have to get into the mindset of trusting the process.” Not kind of.

Trusting the process is Patera’s key to success. A

Once again, I pick up my prayer book and assay to block out distractions.

The pages are dog-eared and velvety from use. A fog dissipates and, what only a moment ago felt distant and unfamiliar, takes shape and shrouds me with everything I once knew and know now. That despite plagues and politics, fashion and fascism, the truths

that connect — yes, connect — us to one another and to Heaven can neither be discounted nor set aside for another day.

Because whether or not we choose to ‘think about it,’ blessings abound with or without our undivided attention. A

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RELIGION

POST-POLITICAL

by Rabbi Jacob Rupp | rabbirupp@gmail.com

A $12k Lesson I made an Instagram post that cost me $12,000.

When I left one of my jobs as a rabbi on a college campus, I felt betrayed. I felt misunderstood. I felt that “they” had made the biggest mistake ever.

I relived my childhood/teenage trauma when my parents would fight and I would pray that my dad would somehow wake up one morning and the rage and the drinking would be a thing of the past. But each day I felt rejected.

Like I did something wrong to deserve my world being messed up. But it was never about me. It was for me.

I recently lost an opportunity I thought would be, in some ways, like a redemption story from my original rabbinic days.

But then I heard that a post I had written on Instagram was out of alignment with the potential client.

I harkened back to that childhood place of “why can’t I be good enough to have things go my way?” and “I can’t be honest because if I am, they will reject me.”

And guess what? They rejected me.

But if they hadn’t rejected me, I would never have left. If I had never left I would still be that same guy who was scared and broke and trying to peddle a life that deep down I couldn’t keep all together.

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When I left, I went into a long dark night of the soul, but it forged me. It built me. It turned me into something that is so much bigger and better. For me. If they wouldn’t have been who they were, I would never have been able to become what I am now.

Now I’m free.

The old me would have wondered where I went wrong, or how I could be different, or just pushed down and hid who I was.

The new me felt sorry for the person that said no, and looked towards my new opportunity.

And in that week where I lost that 12K client, I made four times that — with clients who want my leadership, who valued my honesty over how I looked or what I said didn’t sound “rabbinic.”

When I posted my post that cost me $12K (which dealt with a client’s relationship with his spouse) some guy even told me it was un Jewish to promote passion as an “Orthodox” Jew. And for him and his wife, that’s great!

I wish them well. But for me, I want that.

I want to talk about that.

The old me would have wondered where I went wrong, or how I could be different, or just pushed down and hid who I was.

The new me felt sorry for the person that said no, and looked towards my new opportunity.

I reframed it from a $12,000 loss to a $12,000 gift that was a vote of confidence that I was no longer the guy that this kind of client would want to hire.

And how has my life changed when I stopped being the kind of person this kind of client would want to hire?

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Barry Edelstein Talks the Bright, Celebratory and Razzmatazz Season 2022 of the Old Globe

by Jacqueline Bull When the stages of the world went dark, the Old Globe quickly pivoted to keep theatre alive — online. Erna Finci Viterbi Artistic Director Barry Edelstein even led widely beloved livestreams on Shakespeare. Even still, the anticipation to get back to live in-person theatre grew hungrily over the pandemic.

“The first time we gathered an audience was for a series of concerts that we did in the outdoor theatre and it was Solea Pfeiffer who starred in ‘Almost Famous’ in 2019,” Barry Edelstein said.

“And I remember her stepping out onto the festival stage — which is always such a beautiful place to watch a play under the stars — in the warm springtime evening. And she stood centerstage, opened her mouth and started to sing and the sense I had of just relief that the world is moving forward again. And after a period of so much ugliness that there could be beauty again in our lives

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was palpable. That sense of beauty really was the first and most extraordinary thing about it and it felt like a real balm.

It felt like a really soothing moment for a jangled world,” Barry said.

Looking at the Old Globe’s 2022 season of shows, it is a very joyful, bright and celebratory bunch. And this was not a coincidence.

“We had a lot of conversations at the Globe of what the world would want to see, what the world would need after this very bleak and challenging time and we thought at least in the first instance, we should really strike a note of celebration and a note of brightness and even a note of razzmatazz because we just felt like we need to experience joy again. One of the most noteworthy things of the period of March 2020 until now is the overwhelming grief that surged around the world and there is only one antidote to grief which is joy

and love, so we definitely wanted to do that,” he said.

BOB FOSSE’S DANCIN’ APR. 17–MAY 29 “You want to talk about razzle dazzle and razzmatazz and celebration, you can’t beat that,” Barry said.

“Bob Fosse’s Dancin’” was one of the giant Broadway hits of the late ‘70s by one of the most significant figures in Broadway. The show is a collection of dance numbers from Fosse’s career with musical selections that cross the gamut.

The Old Globe’s version is led by Wayne Cilento who was in the musical in 1978 who has since become a significant choreographer in his own right, notably choreographing “Wicked.” Cilento has rearranged and recontextualized the material and is bringing in some of the best dancers in the country to perform here in San Diego.

FEATURE

Original cast of Bob Fosse’s “Dancin’.”

EL BORRACHO FEB. 17–MAR. 20 “El Borracho is a world premiere play by a writer I wouldn’t say new on the scene, but still in the early chapters of his career named Tony Meneses,” Barry said.

This piece originally came out of the 2020 Powers New Voices Festival at the Globe which impressed even in its first iteration.

“He is writing about the Mexican American experience. This is a very personal play to him. It is about a young writer who is gay and his father who is alcoholic and in very bad health. And it is about how these two men work out their relationship with each other before it is too late... There is a lot of music in it because the father in the play is a musician and so it manages to be a very moving and emotional piece that also has a certain surprising lightness about it given the subject matter... It is a lovely beautiful family play that is quite touching and the character of the dad is just a marvelous creation–just a Falstaffian life force. . .We are happy to be on the Tony Meneses train and to bring this material that will resonate here in our city,” he said.

MALA MAY 7–JUNE 12 In a first for Barry’s tenure at the Old Globe, the theater will be showing a play performed fully in English and Spanish on separate dates. The playwright Melinda Lopez translated it into Spanish for a radio version and the theater took this as an opportunity to better serve its bi-lingual city.

“It is loosely based on the period of her life where she cared for her mother as she developed Alzheimers, so it is a story on caretaking and mothers and daughters and she plays a bunch of different parts.

She plays herself, she plays her mother, she plays others and it is a very, very lovely piece about reconciliation and loss. And again interestingly the dad in El Borracho and the mother in Mala are really a handful, just extraordinarily larger than life figures dealing with illness and how their children navigate their parents in that capacity is the question of both of the plays.”

DIAL M FOR MURDER JULY 21–AUG. 21 Barry expressed his personal love for murder mysteries for the stage because of how exciting and visceral they are and how they put the audience on the edge of their seats; however, he notes the genre is a little dated.

“It is a great opportunity for a contemporary playwright to explore that genre because the field is pretty wide open. I think about a movie like “Get Out” you know that completely reinvented the horror genre,” he said.

The play that he thought had the most potential to revisit is “Dial M for Murder”

by Frederick Knott. He attributes its contemporary potential to the fact that it took the playwright seven years to make the construction airtight which can be glaring if done wrong in a murder mystery.

So Barry hired Jeffrey Hatcher (who had already updated a different Frederick Knott property) and brought him in for his adaptation.

“That is the kind of fun thing in my job is I get to say ‘Alright here is an old play. It still has a lot of life in it, but it is not quite perfect. I wonder if there is a way to set a process in motion to revive it.’ And in all the sense of that word and that is what this is....I think it is going to be a real highlight... A lot of shows at the Globe I really love to see many, many, many times and this is going to be one of the ones I fanboy on ‘cause I love the piece so much,” Barry said.

COME FALL IN LOVE — THE DDLJ MUSICAL SEPT. 1–OCT. 16 “Come fall in love — The DDLJ musical is basically the most popular and successful movie in the history of Bollywood. It opened in Mumbai in like 1995; it is still playing in cinemas there,” he said.

Barry explained that in the same way that American movie studios have reinvented their products as musicals for the stage (“Mrs. Doubtfire” and “Legally Blonde”), so too have Bollywood studios, except it is an even easier transition because the Bollywood films already have music.

“It is a very sweet story about a traditional family that wants their daughter to have an arranged marriage and their daughter wants to love the person that she loves, not the person that her parents tell her to love. The story travels around the world as we figure out how this family and this relationship is going to work out given the clash of cultural expectations. And it’s fantastic, sweet and funny and adorable, really, and bright and I just love it,” he said. A

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SDMA’s “Masters of Photography: The Garner Collection”

A Reflection on Photography’s Role in History, Society and the Future

by Nathalie Feingold

T

he San Diego Museum of Art is reopening “Masters of Photography: The Garner Collection” after a yearlong halt due to Covid-19. The intensive exhibition opened on Nov. 20 and will run through Feb. 21. All of the displayed photographs were donated to the Museum by local collector Cam Garner.

While walking through the exhibit, it’s impossible to ignore how each photo possesses a timeless quality; each shot encapsulates an essence that holds a universal truth about humanity, society and the world that we inhabit.

“Masters of Photography” both reflects and transcends the times of society, while transporting the viewer on a journey through the last 100 years of photography. SDMA Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs Anita Feldman described it most simply as “the greats” of the medium of photography.

The show is organized thematically into three sections. The first section is named “Reflections on Nature,” which celebrates the majesty of the environment through stunning landscape shots. The second section is titled “Things as They Are,” which examines the subjects of the city, society and conflict. The final section is titled “Manipulating Reality,” which looks at abstractionist works and manipulative techniques in the medium.

“In this first section, we’re looking at nature. It’s not just early photographs, there are later ones too and you can trace how photography itself changed as a medium,” Anita explained.

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FEATURE

“Reflections on Nature” features iconic works by Anne Brigman, Ansel Adams, Joel Meyerowitz and even a black-and-white landscape photograph by collector Cam Garner himself.

The second section, “Things as They Are,” exemplifies how photography was, and still is, a critical agent in social change.

“The second section is looking at documentary photography and the urban environment, just depicting — as it’s called, things as they are: city, society and conflict,” Anita explained.

Anita also highlighted how there are a considerable amount of women and Jewish photographers in this collection.

She attributes this to the accessibility of the medium in comparison to painting, which was notoriously exclusionary in earlier years.

“I think this is because it can be used as an agent for social change and drawing attention to injustices. A lot of Jewish artists were depicting scenes in New York, the tenements, where the immigrants lived, just what it was like to be there then — the working and living conditions.

I think photography lends itself even more than painting to drawing attention to these kinds of things in society so that people know and then maybe something can be done,” Anita said.

She then gestured to a photograph in the collection captured by Margaret Bourke-White that documented the liberation of Buchenwald concentration camp.

“It’s shocking to see those. But without all of that photographic documentation, just imagine; all the people who doubt what happened because it’s so unbelievable, these photographs testify to the fact that it is true, that it did happen and how important it is that we know that and we don’t let it happen again.”

She also pointed out a harrowing photograph taken by Lewis Hine in 1910 of a small child working in a cotton mill.

“It’s terrible, but photographs like this draw attention to the fact that there were health and safety issues around child labor and then it helped to create child labor laws. Photography was hugely important in drawing attention to social injustices and creating changes in legislation,” Anita said.

The final section “Manipulating Reality,” displays surrealist photographs that were intentionally distorted by the artist.

Anita motioned to a piece by André Kertész as an example, explaining that the majority of the works in this section employ the use of “altered states, dreamlike visions, exaggerations of scale and juxtapositions of unlikely things.”

“Photographs become documents of society and history. They tell a story.”

“I think it was a kind of echo of the time in that Freud’s ‘The Interpretation of Dreams’ was now translated and readily available and people were getting their heads around that. There was a lot of shifting politics and social currents going on...” Anita explained, “There was a feeling that you need to explore a different kind of reality, that maybe there was a truth that isn’t just straightforward, that you can explore the subconscious of it more.”

Although each photograph quite literally captures a specific and crystalized moment in time, each one just as strongly captures an undeniable and universal sense of “the eternal.”

“Photography is capturing a moment in time, and yet it in itself is timeless.

You have a photograph that could conceivably last forever, and there is something fascinating about going back and looking at old photographs and thinking, ‘that’s real, that was taken at that time.’ It has that feeling of being true — more than a painting does. It’s interesting because photographs become documents of society and history. They tell a story,” Anita said.

Anita described how photography has considerably evolved since its conception.

“You’ll see many different kinds of techniques and approaches to photography. You have the evolution of photography from trying to mimic painting to becoming an art form in its own right–where you can be very experimental. It’s evolving with us; society changes and it will continue to change,” she said.

Anita then contemplated the future of the medium considering the significant changes and technological shifts of the day.

“I think the future of photography will be much more 3-Dimensional and immersive in the sense that it will involve projections. I don’t know, with the way they’re developing technology now you’ll be able to enter the photograph; it will be all around you,” Anita said.

Anita concluded by thanking Cam and Wanda Garner for their generosity — not just to the museum, but to the city of San Diego as a whole.

“This museum belongs to the people of San Diego, so they should know that they’re getting this incredible gift of photography,” she said. A

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SPOTLIGHT

PHOTO: MARIA BARANOVA

La Jolla Playhouse 2022/2023 Season

by Nathalie Feingold La Jolla Playhouse officially announced the first four productions of its 2022/ 2023 subscription season. The slate promises new works that examine characters who are “swept up in the forces of history.”

“These new works — from an incredible slate of award-winning creative teams — speak to the resilience of the human spirit throughout history, and how that spirit can triumph amid adversity. A fitting tribute to our current times,” La Jolla Playhouse Artistic Director Christopher Ashley said.

The Playhouse will also feature a re-imagined classic that will be co-directed by Tony Award winner Christopher Ashley and Helen Hayes Award winner Will Davis — at time of writing, the title for this particular production has not yet been revealed.

Tickets for the Playhouse’s season productions are available through a subscription purchase at lajollaplayhouse.org.

La Jolla Playhouse 2022/2023 Productions LEMPICKA: A NEW MUSICAL JUNE/JULY 2022 This musical is directed by Tony Award winner Rachel Chavkin with book and lyrics by Carson Kreitzer, music by Matt Gould and choreography by Raja Feather Kelly. “Lempicka shows us a woman who defiantly sets her own course amid the political turmoil and cultural repression of 1920s Europe,” Ashley described.

HERE THERE ARE BLUEBERRIES JULY/AUG. 2022 This world premiere features the directorial talents of Tony Award nominee Moisés Kaufman. “‘Here There Are Blueberries’ centers on the discovery of a lost photo album from a Nazi camp that exposes shocking aspects of the human psyche,” Ashley said.

FANDANGO FOR BUTTERFLIES (AND COYOTES) AUG./SEPT. 2022 This En Garde Arts production by Andrea Thome is directed by José Zayas and features original music by Sinuhé Padilla. “In ‘Fandango for Butterflies (and Coyotes)’, a group of presentday immigrants celebrates family and community through music, dance and song, even as the threat to their own safety looms large,” Ashley explained.

MOTHER RUSSIA SEPT./OCT. 2022 This world premiere comedy is by UCSD MFA alumna Lauren Yee and is directed

by Tyne Rafaeli. “Lauren Yee follows up her radiant ‘Cambodian Rock Band’ with a new comedy, ‘Mother Russia,’ about an unlikely pair of espionage agents who, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, find themselves baffled by the complexity of their newfound freedom,” Ashley said.

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FEATURE

Marilyn Michaels: Show Business Royalty

by Marnie Macauley My dear San Diegans: In our arts edition I cannot think of a woman who has more of a multiplicity of artistic talent than the legendary Marilyn Michaels: voice, mimicry, painting, humor, acting and stand-up for starters. She’s done it all from TV to film to stage, taking over the road company of “Funny Girl” after Streisand left. For those of you who may have missed her, I’d like to introduce her to you through an interview we did–the part that can be printed in public. This gifted child of famous artists got her stage legs early.

The Interview

Award-winning comedienne, singer, impressionist, actress and artist, Marilyn Michaels, knew she was “different” early.

After all, Marilyn comes from major Yiddish show biz yichus with the DNA to prove it. She’s the daughter of the

late feisty cantoress Fraydele Oysher and Metropolitan Opera basso, Harold Sternberg. Her uncle was the legendary Moishe Oysher. If others were “born in a trunk,” Marilyn was born somewhere between the Yiddish Theater and the Derma Road (the Catskills).

Marilyn said: “Different? When I was three, we were vacationing in a kuchalayn (a cottage in the Catskills).

While my family was out playing cards, thinking I was tucked safely in my crib, I climbed out and walked outside onto the dark road. A car came careening around a curve. What did I do when I saw the headlights coming toward me? Did I run? No. I sang and danced! To me they were spotlights! Voden?”

Different? Yes. And that difference has won her awards for “Catskills On Broadway,” the starring role in the national company of “Funny

Girl,” an Emmy winning TV series, “The Kopykats” and countless guest appearances from “Lifestyles” with Robin Leach to “The Tonight Show.”

Marilyn has performed in virtually every major venue from Town Hall to Harrahs, singing in no less than five languages.

I recently asked Marilyn to talk about her life, her work, and of course, her legacy.

MARNIE: Marilyn, what was it like being “different” — wildly talented and part of a special family?

MARILYN: I was always a strange kid.

Always singing...from birth. I walked on stage in my diapers! I was sent to a sleep-away camp at age five. I hated it.

The counselors particularly hated me because they had to braid my pigtails

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Marilyn Michaels continued every morning. But, they recognized that I had talent or whatever, because I was always starring in the camp shows...ya know? Like “Tick Tock” or whatever. What a little ham I was (This is a Jewish site, but I was still a “ham!”)

After one show, I parted the curtain and took a solo curtain call — for myself!

Such chutzpah! My mother prided herself in keeping me a “normal” child by sending me to “regular” school... like they thought maybe I’d become a what? Nurse? Or a physicist? I didn’t fit in. I felt like a pariah. There was a group of good-looking girls who ignored me.

I was an outsider. Then, one holiday, the teacher asked if anyone could “do” something for the class. Like, ahem, perform? So, of course I marched up there and blew them away. The kids ran up to give me their Christmas stockings filled with candy! At that moment I realized what power I really had. And it had to do with performing. When I grew up, those girls who ignored me back then came to my shows and were all over me.

MARNIE: What was it like being raised by these icons and how did it affect your career choice?

MARILYN: Well, from the time I was

one, I lived in the theater. Watching my mother on stage, that glamorous figure, her beauty, power and grace, I was transfixed. The rest of the time I’d spend at the Metropolitan Opera where my father was a basso profundo. As a kid, I would sit in on the dress rehearsals of “Lucia with Sutherland”... and eat my bagel, lox and cream cheese — and finish it off with a Snicker’s Bar. I think they wanted to kill me because I made noise. But it was a great time, meeting Lily Pons and Roberta Peters. They smelled of perfume, with jangling jewelry and were so gracious to this little 9-year-old kid. It all seemed normal because I was born into it. My Uncle Moishe [Oysher] would sing at the Pines during the High Holy Days and he knew I had “it” — or whatever you call

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“it” today. I was a soloist at 14. He was so phenomenal, such a blazing master of song and liturgical music. And here I was, doing solos with him. There is no word to describe that experience except “transcendent.”

MARNIE: What is your earliest memory of performing “professionally?”

MARILYN: My mother called me up on stage. It was at the National Theater on Houston and Second Avenue. I was seven, in the theater as usual, wearing my little dress...blue with a rainbow design on the skirt. And she said, ‘Is my daughter Marilyn in the audience?

Marilyn will you come up here?’ We sang a duet in Hebrew. That was the beginning because then she took me on stage with her on the holidays and vacations from school.

MARNIE: You experienced the Yiddish Theater first-hand. What stands out in your memory about those times?

MARILYN: Oh, it was wonderful! I was backstage all the time with Molly Picon, Henrietta Jacobsen (Bruce Adler’s mother), Dinah Goldberg. They held me as a tiny baby while my mother was on stage. As a child, they treated me with respect, never with a disregard or with the attitude that children should be seen and not heard. They were genuinely warm. Then, when I began to perform they were duly proud. They were terrific comediennes and I absorbed that from them as well as from my mother.

MARNIE: Turning to the Catskills, you were a headliner at a very young age.

What do you remember best about “The Derma Road?”

MARILYN: The casino, the shows, the

morning with the Cream of Wheat. The smell of the musty rooms, the swimming pool — and the cute busboys! It was very much like the film “Dirty Dancing,” but it became a true training ground for me when I began to work. Today, there’s no place to fail, no place to learn anymore.

MARNIE: What are your thoughts on how being Jewish informs you and other artists?

MARILYN: I come from a Jewish heritage that is indeed “Royal.” Jewish Music, when done the way my family did it, is great indeed. Moishe was the greatest Cantor, actor, film star...he did it all. Many of today’s Cantors...I don’t know, they cannot compare to their predecessors. (A lot of them need to lay off the brisket.) Part of being a Cantor is being a great performer as well.

Many Jewish cantors were often opera singers who came straight out of the Metropolitan Opera, such as Jan Peerce and Richard Tucker. Jewish comedy writers are without a doubt, the state of the art globally, from Woody Allen to Mel Brooks. Jews are brilliant in so many of the creative arts, comedy and music heading the list. The entire American Songbook is almost exclusively a Jewish Boys Club except for a few guys like Cole Porter and of course the tremendous African American influence.

MARNIE: How would you summarize your remarkable life?

MARILYN: I hope it’s not over yet! The creative part of my life, aside from performing, is painting because art is a huge part of who I am. I’ve been up there...sharing the stage with Moishe, Mom, Sammy Davis, Dean Martin, Orson Welles and the list goes on and on.

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• 1 ½ cups apple cider

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• 3 large eggs • 3 tbsp. vegetable oil or melted butter • 2 tbsp. maple syrup • 1 tsp. vanilla extract • 1 ¾ cup whole wheat flour • ¼ cup all-purpose flour • 2 tsp. cinnamon • 1/4 tsp. nutmeg

In a medium bowl, whisk the apple cider, eggs, vegetable oil, vanilla and maple syrup.

2. In a separate bowl, combine flours, cinnamon, nutmeg, baking powder and baking soda.

3. Add wet to dry mixture, stirring until just combined.

4. Heat a nonstick pan over medium heat with butter or oil. Use a ¼ cup measure to portion pancakes, flipping when bubbles start to form.

5. Enjoy!

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Local Offerings All events are now in-person unless specified as online.

Be sure to check with each venue for their safety requirements (i.e. masks and vaccinations) as they may have changed after press time.

La Jolla Playhouse All content is available at lajollaplayhouse.org Patrons must be fully vaccinated or show a negative PCR test result within 48 hours of the performance.

San Diego Repertory Theatre All content is available on sdrep.org.

Patrons must be fully vaccinated or show a negative PCR test result within 72 hours of the performance.

THRU DEC. 5: She the People This play is entirely created, designed and performed by the women of The Second City. “She the People” satirizes the reality of being a woman in today’s world and has received high acclaim from the Washington Post and the Chicago Tribune.

Coronado Playhouse All content is on coronadoplayhouse.org THRU DEC. 12: Clue The classic board game comes to life on stage at the Coronado Playhouse. Watch as Miss Scarlett, Professor Plum, Mrs. Peacock, Mrs. White, Mr. Green and Colonel Mustard try to uncover who among them is a murderer.

Tickets are available online.

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North Coast Repertory Theatre All content is available on northcoastrep.org.

Patrons must be fully vaccinated or show a negative PCR test result within 72 hours of the performance.

DEC 8-JAN 2: Always...Patsy Cline This musical play is based on the correspondence of Cline with a fan and includes hits like “Walking After Midnight,” “Crazy,” and “Sweet Dreams.”

San Diego Opera All content is available at sdopera.org Patrons must be fully vaccinated or show a negative PCR test result within 72 hours of the performance. Masks will be required of audience members while inside the venue, except while eating and drinking.

DEC. 3, 7:30 p.m.: Arturo Chacón-Cruz In Concert This is the company debut of Mexican tenor Arturo Chacón-Cruz performing opera favorites accompanied by a pianist and Mariachi Continental de México.

Arturo Chacón-Cruz with the San Diego Opera.

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DEC. 17-19: James Bond: The Musical This cabaret parody is written and performed by Tom Steward.

Katie Karel as Patsy Cline at North Coast Rep.

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THRU DEC. 12: To the Yellow House | Weiss Theatre La Jolla Playhouse is excited to show the world premiere of “To the Yellow House” on November 16. Brought to you by playwright Kimber Lee and director Neel Keller, this play tells the story of melancholic artist Vincent Van Gogh in Paris. “A meditation on love, art and not being popular.”

San Diego Symphony All content is available on sandiegosymphony.org ONGOING: Rady Shell Inaugural Season

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“Monuments that inspired the design of the Taj Mahal” with the South Asian Arts Council Annual Social.

DEC. 12, 3:30 p.m.: Home for the Holidays: Military and First Responders Appreciation Concert DEC. 22, 5 P.M.: Disney’s Frozen™ In Concert

San Diego Museum of Art All content is available on sdmart.org DEC. 4: South Asian Arts Council Annual Social — Going Places And Discovering Spaces | Online This social includes a presentation “Monuments that inspired the design of the Taj Mahal” and an art auction.

Cost is $10.

The Reuben Fleet Science Center All content is on rhfleet.org and requires registration. ▲ Polina Kozhevnikov of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.

La Jolla Music Society All content is available on ljms.org.

Patrons must provide proof of vaccination or wear a mask at all times.

DEC. 4, 1 P.M.: 32nd Annual Winter Concert DEC. 7, 7 P.M.: Memoir Showcase DEC. 8, 7:30 p.m.: Israel Philharmonic String Quartet This eclectic one-hour concert is part of a national tour to celebrate the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra’s 85th anniversary.

DEC. 16, 8 P.M.: My Bluegrass Heart: Béla Fleck, Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer and Bryan Sutton

DEC. 6, 10:30 A.M.: Sharp Minds “The Future of Immunotherapy: Treatments benefiting all cancer patients” led by Dr. Jennifer Hope.

DEC. 1, 7 P.M.: LIVE Sky Tonight This discussion centers on ice giants like Uranus and Neptune.

San Diego Natural History Museum All content is on sdnhm.org.

DEC. 4,12: Nature Hike This month’s hikes are at Del Dios Highlands County Preserve and Batiquitos Lagoon (Gabbiano Trailhead).

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The News San Diego to Launch Ballot Initiative to Invest in Libraries and Parks Local community leaders banded together to launch a ballot initiative, titled “The Library and Parks Investment Act of 2022”, aimed at improving the city’s libraries and parks. This major grassroots effort is led by the San Diego Public Library Foundation and San Diego Parks Foundation. They plan to place the initiative on the Nov. 2022 ballot to be up for vote by the community.

San Diego City Council Eliminates Parking Minimums in Commercial Areas The city council unanimously passed a parking policy update in an effort to support local businesses and reduce transportation emissions. The new parking policy removes parking space minimum requirements for many commercial businesses. The policy goes into effect on Jan. 1, 2022 and commercial tenants and owners in commercial areas citywide will have the option to provide as much parking to meet their customers’ needs or use the spaces for other needs such as outdoor dining spaces.

Minimum parking regulations required businesses to provide and maintain a certain number of parking spaces, this led to significant costs for the business owner and an oversupply of parking spaces throughout the city. The parking regulations also made it increasingly difficult for businesses to adapt to changing transportation and economic trends, this encouraged more driving which, in turn, led to an increase in climate pollution.

“Eliminating parking minimums for local businesses is yet another step in our movement to make San Diego neighborhoods more walkable, bikeable, accessible and sustainable. It also benefits our small businesses financially, allowing them to invest their money more strategically,” said Mayor Todd Gloria. “I’m pleased that the City Council has approved this parking policy reform, and I look forward to seeing its transformative impacts on our neighborhoods and businesses.”

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The initiative is the organizers’ response to what they cite as a critical need to ensure adequate funding for these public amenities. They believe that many of San Diego’s libraries and parks are unsafe and in urgent need of repair and modernization.

Dr. Jonathan Sarna (far left) and Dr. Meir Litvak, conversation leaders.

SDSU Hosts Conversation on Global Antisemitism The Jewish Studies Program at SDSU and the Murray Galinson San Diego Israel Initiative invite the community to join them for a webinar discussion on global antisemitism in the 21st century.

The webinar is in response to statistics that show nearly historic levels of assault, harassment and vandalism against Jews worldwide.

The conversation will take place on Dec. 6 via Zoom and will be led by distinguished professors Jonathan Sarna and Meir Litvak.

The event is free and open to the public; however, registration is required. For more information, contact jewishstudiesprogram@sdsu.edu.

SPOTLIGHT

San Diego Opera’s Mainstage Season

Matthew Ozawa, Director

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ROMÉO ET JULIETTE

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Yves Abel, Conductor

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by Nathalie Feingold The San Diego Opera announced the opening of their mainstage season. Their opening production will be of Mozart’s “Così fan tutte” on Feb. 12, 2022. This performance will mark the Company’s return to the Civic Theatre after a two-year hiatus due to Covid-19.

For more information and tickets, visit sdopera.org or call 619-533-7000.

San Diego Opera’s Mainstage Productions COSÌ FAN TUTTE FEB. 12, 15, 18, 20 AT THE SAN DIEGO CIVIC THEATRE “‘Così fan tutte’ tells the story of two young soldiers who disguise their identities to test their lovers’ fidelity. Will the women fall for their ‘new’ suitors as the opera’s title (‘All women do it’) suggests? Filled with humor and satirical insight into human nature, this opera features some of Mozart’s most seductive and playful music.”

ROMÉO ET JULIETTE MARCH 26, 29, APRIL 1, 3 AT THE SAN DIEGO CIVIC THEATRE One of the most famous love stories of all time is brought to life with company debut’s for the actors of Romeo and Julliette. This production features the stage direction of Matthew Ozawa and is conducted by Yves Abel.

AGING MAGICIAN MAY 13, 14 AT THE BALBOA THEATRE The West Coast premiere of this “hybrid of opera and theatre that combines opera, choral music and puppetry... ‘Aging Magician’ is a meditation on the gifts we leave behind for those who come after us, and the hope that they pick up where we left off. It is also a celebration of youth, imagination and the peculiar magic of ordinary life.”

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Hear us Here 2021-2022 Winter/Spring Season

In January through May, the San Diego Symphony will visit nine venues throughout San Diego—as our dynamic Music Director Rafael Payare and the musicians of the San Diego Symphony Orchestra bring you some of the greatest works ever written for orchestra. Highlights include Beethoven's triumphant Symphony No. 9, Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique, Brahms' epic Piano Concerto No. 1, Tchaikovsky's dramatic Symphony No. 4, Vivaldi's Four Seasons and many, many more.

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