Currently Browsing: July 2011
11/08/11: Congratulations to Tracy Otwell who won a Jeff Award last night in the “Artistic Specialization” category! From July’11 Spotlight: Lookingglass Theatre Company on North Michigan Avenue closes its 2011 season with a Tony Award for Excellence in Regional Theater (presented in New York on June 12) and a lovely new premiere production called The […]
From July ’11 Spotlight: The Alliance of Latinos and Jews and the Chicago YIVO Society are co-sponsoring two screenings of Alejandro Springall’s film My Mexican Shivah. The first one is Wednesday, July 6 at 12:15 p.m. at Skokie Public Library; the second one is Thursday, July 7 at 6 p.m. at Harold Washington Library Center […]
From July ’11 Spotlight: An SRO crowd, including consular representatives from Turkey and Israel, welcomed Sophie Bejarano de Goldberg to the National Museum of Mexican Art in Pilsen on May 25. Goldberg’s lecture, The Sephardic Jews of Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow, was based on over one hundred interviews with Jews who emigrated from the Ottoman […]
Lookingglass Theatre Company on North Michigan Avenue closes its 2011 season with a Tony Award for Excellence in Regional Theater (presented in New York on June 12) and a lovely new premiere production called The Last Act of Lilka Kadison. An elderly American woman is haunted by a ghost from her Polish past. Lilka, the […]