Currently Browsing: September 2011

Fiddler Tour 2011

11/13 Update: I went to Regina, SK to see the new troupe. So go/no go, what’s my advice?  I say GO! & here’s why 🙂 Troika Productions announced today that their new Fiddler on the Roof touring company would arrive in Chicago–for one week only–on Tues 11/22. I have already ordered a block of seats for the Sunday […]

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THE DEBT (2011)

From Tzivi’s Cinema Spotlight: An elegant middle-aged woman with a horrific scar carved into her cheek demands our immediate attention. Who is she and who could possibly be responsible for such cruel disfigurement? As the plot unfolds, we learn that this woman, “Rachel Singer,” is Israeli, and yet she does not have an Israeli accent. […]

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Sholem Aleichem Doc

From Tzivi’s Sept ’11 Spotlight: Joseph Dorman’s wonderful new documentary Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness opened at the Music Box Theatre in Chicago and the Landmark Renaissance Place Cinema in Highland Park on Aug. 26, but I predict it will be so popular that it will still be playing locally well after this September […]

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Golem Returns to Chgo

From Tzivi’s Sept ’11 Spotlight: Fabulous visitors and beloved hometown favorites will fill the air with music this fall… The fun begins Labor Day weekend, when Kfar presents Golem at Martyrs in Lincoln Square on Saturday, Sept. 3.

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Clone Yourself on 9/18?

From Tzivi’s Sept ’11 Spotlight: Fabulous visitors and beloved hometown favorites will fill the air with music this fall… On the evening of Sunday, Sept. 18, you can choose between the World Music Fest’s “Sephardic Showcase” (featuring Nuriya) on the Mayne Stage in Rogers Park, or ORT Chicago’s benefit at Viper Alley in Lincolnshire headlined […]

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Chgo YIVO Klezmer Brunch

From Tzivi’s Sept ’11 Spotlight: Fabulous visitors and beloved hometown favorites will fill the air with music this fall… On Sunday, Oct. 2, members of the Maxwell Street Klezmer Band will lead a family sing-along (for all ages) at a brunch sponsored by the Chicago YIVO Society at SPACE in Evanston.

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Chicago a Capella

From Tzivi’s Sept ’11 Spotlight: Fabulous visitors and beloved hometown favorites will fill the air with music this fall… Chicago a Capella has planned a splendid series of events to promote their new CD Days of Awe and Rejoicing, leading off with an afternoon Release Party at Spertus on Sunday, Sept.18, followed by additional performances […]

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In the Garden of Beasts

From Tzivi’s Sept ’11 Spotlight: “It was because I had seen so much of injustice and domineering little groups, as well as heard the complaints of so many of the best people of the country, that I ventured as far as my position would allow and by historical analogy warned men as solemnly as possible […]

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Sept ’11 Spotlight

Joseph Dorman’s wonderful new documentary Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness opened at the Music Box Theatre in Chicago and the Landmark Renaissance Place Cinema in Highland Park on Aug. 26, but I predict it will be so popular that it will still be playing locally well after this September issue arrives in your mailbox. […]

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