Bar Mitzvah Boy at Miles Memorial Playhouse

Dates: (3/21/2019 - 5/12/2019 )

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Miles Memorial Playhouse

1130 Licoln Blvd.
Santa Monica,CA 90403

Phone: 323-821-2449

Tickets: $35 adults. $30 Santa Monica residents with I.D. (those purchasing adult tickets online can receive a $5 reimbursement at the door); $32.50 for groups of ten or more; $25 students with I.D.; $20 for all preview tickets (March 21 and 22); SPECIAL: Pu

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Joey Brant is a Jewish divorce lawyer in his 60s. He has never had a bar mitzvah ceremony. He feels the need to get one now, before his grandson has his bar mitzvah. For reasons which will become clear in the story, Joeys bar mitzvah ceremony must take place at the synagogue he attended five decades ago. Joey, a thoroughly secularized man, must now re-connect with the faith of his ancestors. He promptly alienates the synagogues regular instructor, which means that Joey must now go to the temples rabbi for his bar mitzvah lessons. Rabbi Michael Levitz-Sharon, a woman, finds her faith challenged at the same time that Joey is rediscovering his spiritual roots. her 11-year-old devoutly Jewish daughter has contracted terminal cancer. The daughter, Rachel, wants nothing more than to live long enough to be bat-mitzvahed. The impending tragedy is taking its toll on Rabbi Michaels marriage.Will Joey at long last have his bar mitzvah and find his faith? Can Rabbi Michael retain her beliefs?Starring R. Emmett Lee and Pamela Heffner. Directed by Howard Teichman. Written by Mark Leiren-Young. Presented by West Coast Jewish Theatre.

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Ages: 12 to Adult.

News About Bar Mitzvah Boy at Miles Memorial Playhouse

BWW Review: West Coast Premiere of BAR MITZVAH BOY Explores the Meaning of Faith at the Miles Memorial Playhouse

April 08, 2019

In this two-person character study, Joey Brant (R. Emmett Lee, who more than adequately took on the challenge of learning to speak Hebrew for the part) is a Jewish divorce lawyer in his 60s who never had a bar mitzvah ceremony. For reasons which become clear in the story, Joey's bar mitzvah ceremony must take place at the synagogue he attended five decades ago where his grandson Ben Goldman will carry on the family tradition with his own bar mitzvah in a matter of months. Joey, a thoroughly secularized man, must now re-connect with the faith of his ancestors, but promptly alienates the synagogue's regular instructor. But when Joey goes to meet with the temple's new rabbi for his bar mitzvah lessons, he is shocked to find a woman is now in charge.

BAR MITZVAH BOY Opens March 23 At Miles Memorial Playhouse

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