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SPOTLIGHT | 'PINEAPPLE EXPRESS'
Comedian/writer Seth Rogen and producer/writer Judd Aptow have been brewing up comedy ever since Knocked Up knocked back big box office numbers last year. The pair teams up again, along with James Franco, on a comedy that parodies both '70s stoner movies and '80s buddy action movies, Pineapple Express. full story >
SPOTLIGHT | 'VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA'
The title of Woody Allen's latest film, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, sounds like the name of a character — but actually lists three, only two of whom are people. full story >
LOCAL | FILM CONTEST ONLINE
Elizabeth Pollack, entering her senior year at Crossroads College Preparatory School, has accomplished what many aspiring writers dream of: her screenplay was chosen to be produced into a 10-minute film. full story >
THEATER REVIEW | 'JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT'
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, the pioneering pop musical of the dazzlingly successful Andrew Lloyd Webber, has hit the boards of the Stages St. Louis Robert Robert G. Reim Theatre venue with an energetic and thoroughly satisfying production. full story >
SPOTLIGHT | FIDDLER ON THE ROOF'
Fiddler on the Roof, the historically successful 1964 Broadway play about the struggles of Tevye the Dairyman in the 1905 Jewish shtetl of Anatevka,Russia will take center stage for the ninth time at The Muny in Forest Park as the closing show for its 90th season. The show will be presented from Aug. 4-10. full story >
SPOTLIGHT | 'FIDDLER ON THE ROOF'
Fiddler on the Roof, with music by Jerry Bock; lyrics by Joseph Stein, and based on the famous stories by Sholom Aleichem, especially "Tevye's Daughters," opened at the Imperial Theatre in New York on Sept. 22, 1964 for what was to be a record-setting run of 3,242 productions. A Broadway musical or play with such explicitly Jewish content, featuring Jewish actors portraying Jewish characters in a show with a positive message was at the time both unprecedented and a pioneering breakthrough in show business which sometimes shunned Jewish themes. full story >
SPOTLIGHT | 'THE IMMEDIATE TOUCH'
The works of several Jewish artists, and works with strong Jewish themes or subtexts are among those in the exhibition, "The Immediate Touch: German, Austrian and Swiss Drawings from St. Louis Collections, 1946-2007, a collection of 120 important works at the Saint Louis Art Museum through Sept. 7. The works were created by 39 German-speaking artists after World War II. The drawings include works from the Museum's own large permanent collection and from local private collections. full story >
LOCAL | ENTERTAINMENT
Jeremy Shanas has come a long way from his days at Solomon Schechter Day School. He has tried different schools, different cities, even different countries, but he never feels as comfortable as when he's singing with his best friends right here in St. Louis. full story >
SPOTLIGHT | IN THE SWING OF THINGS
Play ball! The new season of the Inter-congregational Softball League is well under way. full story >
SPOTLIGHT | 'You Don't Mess with the Zohan'
The new Adam Sandler comedy You Don't Mess With The Zohan has the comedian as an Israeli Mossad agent who secretly wants to be a hairdresser. Beyond the absurdity inherent in that statement, the film looked like it had some comedic potential. After all, West Bank Story, the Oscar winning short comedy, found real comedy gold in the human side of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. You Don't Mess With The Zohan does not. full story >
SPOTLIGHT | 'SPEEDBUMPS TO LOVE'
When St. Louis-born author Rose Blume published her novel Speedbumps to Love, which has a strong baseball subtext, she joined a long list of Jewish authors who have embraced the sport as a major component of their work. full story >
SPOTLIGHT | 'THE TALE OF THE ALLERGIST'S WIFE'
The New Jewish Theatre is closing out its eleventh season — and its last in its current studio venue at the Jewish Community Center — with a first-rate production of The Tale of the Allergist's Wife, by Charles Busch. Seasoned director Edward Coffield works with a very strong cast to infuse Charles Busch's challenging script with an immediacy and a vitality that eluded last year's production of the same play at the Fox Theatre, which starred top-tier actress Valerie Harper (Rhoda, Golda) in the lead role as Marjorie Taub, described as a "typical Upper West Side wife (who) devotes her days to mornings at the Whitney, afternoons at MOMA and evenings at BAM, but is running on emotional empty." full story >
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