SDJW thanks its March 2016 contributors
SAN DIEGO — San Diego Jewish World expresses its appreciation to the byliners and staff photographers whose works appeared in March 2016 editions. They included: David Amos Eitan Arom Judy Lash Balint...
View ArticleThe ubiquitous Mr. Eisenberg
By Cynthia Citron BEVERLY HILLS, California — The name “Jesse Eisenberg” may not be as familiar as, say, Jerry Seinfeld—-yet. But if you saw him portraying Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in The...
View ArticleTense ‘John Is A Father’ makes its debut
By Cynthia Citron NORTH HOLLYWOOD, California — Perhaps I should recuse myself from reviewing John Is A Father because its star, Sam Anderson, is one of my favorite actors. In addition, he is one...
View Article‘Bad Jews’ depicts split between religious and secular
By Cynthia Citron HOLLYWOOD — The play has such a despicable name that you would think it would attract every neo-Nazi, Aryan Nation, Skinheaded anti-Semite in southern California. The play is called...
View ArticleCorporate raider drama comes to the L.A. stage
By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES — If Lawrence Garfinkle comes to your town, be wary! And be afraid. Be very afraid. Garfinkle, known to his fellow Wall Street stockbrokers as “Larry the Liquidator,”...
View ArticlePlay focuses on Hitler, Chaplin and Pickford
By Cynthia Citron BEVERLY HILLS, California — At first he was seen as a joke. Then, as he continued his campaign of insults and threats, outrageous proposals, and the promise to make his country great...
View ArticleTwo extra ordinary Holocaust films: ‘Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe’ and...
By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES — This past weekend I saw two intense biographical documentaries dealing with completely opposing viewpoints on the Holocaust. The first, Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe,...
View ArticleHe’s a lion, hear him roar
By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES — The slice of life that he brings to the stage is his own. Filled with pain and anger, hostility, loneliness, and alienation, it is, nevertheless, a solo performance...
View ArticleBeckett’s genius on display at L.A.’s Odyssey
By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES — What could be more overwhelming than a play by Samuel Beckett? How about FIVE plays by Samuel Beckett? Ron Sossi, the fearless founder of L.A.’s Odyssey Theatre and its...
View ArticleArts columnist Citron tells of her memoir
By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES — If my editor will indulge me, I should like to tell you about a book today rather than a play or film. The book is called As I Remember It and it is my memoir which has...
View ArticleA supper for the power- hungry
By Cynthia Citron HOLLYWOOD — Playwright Phinneas Kiyomura’s play Supper introduces three oil-rich brothers who have come to Japan to celebrate the wedding of their fourth brother, Freddy (Joel...
View ArticleA memoir of travel, encounters with the famous
As I Remember It by Cynthia Citron, © 2017 Xlibris; ISBN 9780152-4571627. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Given that Nancy and I are mentioned in Cynthia Citron’s book, I feel a bit embarrassed...
View ArticleA French farce that is hard to parse
By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES — The first French farce was performed in the 13th century. British farce began a century later. They are both still going strong, but often in very different...
View ArticleNew film asks ‘Who do you love?’
By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES — Probably every long-time married couple will acknowledge that every once in a while the rapture will wear off. If they’re lucky they will find a spark that reignites...
View ArticleBeing ‘foreign, protagonist speaks gibberish
By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES — Since he wrote it in 1984, Larry Shue’s play The Foreigner has been produced and revived by amateurs, students, and professional companies almost continually. It’s a...
View ArticleThe Lyons, hear them roar
By Cynthia Citron NORTH HOLLYWOOD, California — Cruelty is usually the weapon of choice in dysfunctional families. In the Lyons family this toxic behavior has engendered alienation, isolation, and...
View Article‘Paris Can Wait’ updates class ‘A Man and A Woman’
By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES — Things were a lot softer in 1966. If you were old enough to go to movies in those relatively tranquil days, you will undoubtedly remember with a smile Claude Lelouch’s...
View Article‘Dogfight,’ a well staged musical, hasn’t dogs or planes
By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES — Well, they aren’t Stephen Sondheim—-yet. But they could be—-in time. Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, who wrote the lyrics AND composed the music for Dogfight have just...
View ArticleMaudie: The Grandma Moses of Nova Scotia
By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES — If you can imagine the handsome Ethan Hawke with a perpetual frown and a gravelly voice like Billy Bob Thornton’s in Sling Blade, you will appreciate Hawke’s amazing...
View ArticleRobert De Niro is in the title, but not in the play
By Cynthia Citron HOLLYWOOD, California — Even as you giggle continuously through Sy Rosen’s delightful chronicle of his journey into “old age” you are also continually aware of how skillfully he has...
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