Anxiety Arts Festival London 2014

By Tamar SchwartzJune 13, 2014 Art, Movies, Photography, Plays

Click Here to Read and View: Anxiety Arts Festival London 2014. Anxiety 2014 is a new London-wide arts festival, curated by the Mental Health Foundation. Taking place at multiple venues throughout June 2014.

Break a leg – or get shot: the Jewish actors who braved Stalin’s terror

By Tamar SchwartzJune 9, 2014 Plays

Click Here to Read: Break a leg – or get shot: the Jewish actors who braved Stalin’s terror. The Moscow State Yiddish Theatre had to please Stalin and his henchmen or face dreadful consequences. How did it manage to thrive for so long? by David Schneider on The Guardian website on June 8, 2014.

The Moscow State Yiddish Theatre on stage in 1940, with Solomon Mikhoels centre. Photograph: Sovfoto/UIG via Getty Images

Theater J’s Thought-Provoking Freud’s Last Session

By Tamar SchwartzMay 21, 2014 Plays

Click Here to Read: BWW Reviews: Theater J’s Thought-Provoking Freud’s Last Session

Imagining if Anne Frank had lived to tell her story

By Tamar SchwartzMay 11, 2014 Plays

Click Here To Read: Imagining if Anne Frank had lived to tell her story: New play based on World War II diary goes beyond her death in Bergen-Belsen at age 15 BY Cnaan Liphshiz on the Times of Israel website on May 10, 2014.

Program change: Graziella Rossi to perform “How is this Professor Freud…?” May 21 in lieu of “Sabina Spielrein”

By Tamar SchwartzMay 9, 2014 Books, Plays

Program Change for May 21, 2014

Please note that in lieu of the one-woman play Sabina Spielrein, LBI and the Zürich Meets New York Festival will present the following theatrical performance featuring Graziella Rossi.

Wednesday, May 21, 2014, 7:00 PM | Lecture and Staged Reading

“How is this Professor Freud, and how does he actually behave?” Diary of an Analysis, April 1921
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The Murder Trial of Sigmund Freud

By Tamar SchwartzMay 9, 2014 Plays

THE MURDER TRIAL OF SIGMUND FREUD by the novelist BRENDA WEBSTER (Vienna Triangle, After Auschwitz: A Love Story) and IARPP member MERIDEE STEIN. Directed by Meridee Stein.

In 1919, one of Sigmund Freud’s most brilliant protégés, Viktor Tausk, died in a gruesome suicide. But who was really responsible for his death? Was it the act of a depressed young man looking for relief from his own internal demons? Or was he driven to his death by the manipulation of his mentor? In short – was it suicide or murder by mind? The Murder Trial of Sigmund Freud explores the complicated and twisting internal landscape of this towering figure and creator of psychoanalysis.

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A Play’s View of a Bigoted Past Holds a Mirror to a Violent Present

By Tamar SchwartzMay 4, 2014 Plays

Click Here to Read: A Play’s View of a Bigoted Past Holds a Mirror to a Violent Present by Samuel G. Freedman in The New York Times on MAY 2, 2014.

A dress rehearsal for “To Kill a Mockingbird” at the Jewish Community Center in Overland Park, Kan. Credit Bob Compton

The Secret Jewish History of William Shakespeare

By Tamar SchwartzMay 1, 2014 Plays

Click Here to Read: The Secret Jewish History of William Shakespeare: 450 Years Later, Bard Remains a Man of Infinite Jewishness By Seth Rogovoy in the Jewish Daily Forward on April 23, 2014.

In the Spotlight, Finding His Religion

By Tamar SchwartzApril 19, 2014 Plays

Click Here to Read: In the Spotlight, Finding His Religion: Several Moss Harts Are in ‘Act One,’ at Lincoln Center by Ben Brantley In The New York Times on April 17, 2014.

Act One Santino Fontana, left, and Tony Shalhoub in an adaptation of Moss Hart’s memoir at the Vivian Beaumont Theater. Credit Sara Krulwich/The New York Times

The Worlds of Sholem Aleichem

By Tamar SchwartzApril 12, 2014 Books, Plays

Click Here to Read: The Worlds of Sholem Aleichem: The Remarkable Life and Afterlife of the Man Who Created Tevye. Jeremy Dauber’s biography looks at how Fiddler on the Roof came to represent the ultimate Americanisation of Jewish culture, Reviewed by J. Hoberman on the Guardian website on April 11, 2014,

Henry Goodman as Tevye at the Savoy theatre in 2007. Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian