Sholom Secunda

Theater Pizzazz reviewer and jazz devotee Andrew Poretz joins Broadway World Cabaret for the night, as he covers the album release party for JAM!, the new CD from the Eyal Vilner Big Band.

Internationally renowned, multiple award winning performer, Yael Rasooly, brings her critically lauded show, 'Glamour in the Dark,' back to NYC for one more performance at the Laurie Beechman Theatre on Feb. 2nd at 1pm. For tickets, visit: https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/988597

Internationally renowned, multiple award winning performer, Yael Rasooly, brings her critically lauded show, 'Glamour in the Dark,' back to NYC for one more performance at the Laurie Beechman Theatre on Feb. 2nd at 1pm. For tickets, visit: https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/988597

Internationally renowned, multiple award winning performer, Yael Rasooly brings her critically lauded show, "Glamour in the Dark," back to NYC for three performances at the Laurie Beechman Theatre: Jan. 9th and Jan. 13th at 7pm and Feb. 2nd at 1pm. Yael, one of Israel's leading theater artists, will perform a repertoire of music from the 1920s to 1950s with celebrated accordionist, Iliya Magalnyk, bringing to life dramatic, romantic and nostalgic music from composers Charles Dumont, Edith Piaf, Sholom Secunda and more. The Laurie Beechman Theatre is at 407 West 42nd Street in the rear and downstairs at the West Bank Cafe. A $15 cover charge and $20 food and drink minimum per person applies.

Internationally renowned, multiple award winning performer, Yael Rasooly brings her critically lauded show, "Glamour in the Dark," back to NYC for three performances at the Laurie Beechman Theatre: Jan. 9th and Jan. 13th at 7pm and Feb. 2nd at 1pm. Yael, one of Israel's leading theater artists, will perform a repertoire of music from the 1920s to 1950s with celebrated accordionist, Iliya Magalnyk, bringing to life dramatic, romantic and nostalgic music from composers Charles Dumont, Edith Piaf, Sholom Secunda and more. The Laurie Beechman Theatre is at 407 West 42nd Street in the rear and downstairs at the West Bank Cafe. A $15 cover charge and $20 food and drink minimum per person applies.

Internationally renowned, multiple award winning performer, Yael Rasooly brings her critically lauded show, "Glamour in the Dark," back to NYC for three performances at the Laurie Beechman Theatre: Jan. 9th and Jan. 13th at 7pm and Feb. 2nd at 2pm. Yael, one of Israel's leading theater artists, will perform a repertoire of music from the 1920s to 1950s with celebrated accordionist, Iliya Magalnyk, bringing to life dramatic, romantic and nostalgic music from composers Charles Dumont, Edith Piaf and Sholom Secunda and more. The Laurie Beechman Theatre is at 407 West 42nd Street in the rear and downstairs at the West Bank Cafe. A $15 cover charge and $20 food and drink minimum per person applies. For tickets, visit: https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/988597

Even if you didn't know that Jane Lynch (GLEE) and Kate Flannery (THE OFFICE) are longtime friends, it's easy to imagine.

The new music ensemble, International Street Cannibals (ISC), presents "The Easily Satisfied Lover" - an evening of vocal works from the period of early modernism, which turns its lens on archaic male narratives of romance and reframes them through the voice and sensibility of a 21st century woman. Central to the evening is the performance of Arnold Schoenberg's monodrama, Pierrot Lunaire, op. 21 (1912) - a fantastical setting of 21 poems by Belgian symbolist poet Albert Giraud and freely translated in German by Otto Erich Hartleben. The program is a creation of soprano Ariadne Greif, Los Angeles-based director Gray Palmer, and ISC's founder/director Dan Barrett. It features conducting by maestro Christopher Lyndon-Gee; film footage by Swiss-Japanese filmmaker Caroline Mariko Stucky, especially created for this performance; and technical direction and stage management by Tyler Learned.

The performance schedule has been changed for 'Light Up The Night,' a theatrical concert of rediscovered and restored Yiddish theater songs by Ellstein, Goldfaden, Olshanetsky, Rumshinsky, and Secunda, to be presented by National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene (NYTF) January 1 in Edmond J. Safra Hall at Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Place, Manhattan.  Originally two shows were planned, at 2:00 PM and 6:00 PM.  The 2:00 PM performance continues as scheduled but the 6:00 PM performance has been canceled.

 To ring in the New Year, on January 1 National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene (NYTF) will present 'Light Up The Night,' a concert of rediscovered and restored pre- and post-WWII music from the theatrical works of the great composers of the Golden Age of Yiddish Theater.  These include Ellstein, Goldfaden, Olshanetsky, Rumshinsky and Secunda.  All are leading songwriters from the era of 'The Golden Bride,' which was presented by Folksbiene Theatre in 2015 and 2016.  The cast will feature performers who were acclaimed in that production, backed by a 16-piece orchestra.  The production is in Yiddish with projected supertitles.  The full concert will be offered twice, at 2:00 PM and 6:00 PM, in Edmond J. Safra Hall at Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Place.

In the year that the Congregacão Israelita Paulista (CIP) celebrates 80 years of great history and dedication to the Jewish community and the Brazilian society, the actor and singer Daniel Boaventura was chosen to be the attraction of the commemorative concert for the benefit of social work of the institution . The event, which takes place June 29 at the Teatro Sergio Cardoso, will be presented by Rubens Ewald Filho - also one of the directors and writers alongside Claudio Erlichman - and will journey for more than 50 years of history of the great Broadway classics, highlighting the strong Jewish influence in the American Songbook, which contributed to the emergence of a new artistic genre, the musical theater. The show, named 'Broadwish - From Shtetl to Broadway', created especially for this occasion, will bring a repertoire full of standards composed and written by renowned Jewish composers such as Irving Berlin, George & Ira Gershwin, Stephen Sondheim, Stephen Schwartz , Oscar Hammerstein II, Kander & Ebb and Burt Bacharach among others.

On July 5, Carole J. Bufford erupted onto the stage at Birdland for her first Sunday evening as hostess of the club's weekly Jazz Party (which had been helmed most recently by Natalie Douglas and Jane Monheit). The formidable vocalist, glamorous in clingy red, was aided and abetted by a top-notch (also well dressed—Bravo!) quartet featuring Joel Frahm on sax, Ray Marchia on drums, Tom Hubbard on bass, and Musical Director Ian Herman on piano. Special guests for Bufford's inaugural session were Janelle Velasquez and Lianne Marie Dobbs. With Bufford's audacious performance, smart choices, and attention to detail, Sundays promise to be a great deal more fun in midtown Manhattan.

RUACH, the Jewish arts and music organization serving Greater Milwaukee, will present a concert performed by the Philomusica String Quartet, featuring works of Shostakovich and others, today, September 2nd at 7:45 p.m. in Youth Arts Hall of the Milwaukee Youth Arts Center, 325 W. Walnut Street. The performance, titled 'Understanding Struggle through Music: A Jewish Perspective,' will also feature works by Hans Krasa and Sholom Secunda, in addition to Shostakovich's famed String Quartet No. 8. In addition, there will be a 7 p.m. pre-concert talk by Philomusica violinist, Alexander Mandl, and RUACH founder/executive director, Joshua Richman.

RUACH, the Jewish arts and music organization serving Greater Milwaukee, will present a concert performed by the Philomusica String Quartet, featuring works of Shostakovich and others, on Tuesday, September 2nd at 7:45 p.m. in Youth Arts Hall of the Milwaukee Youth Arts Center, 325 W. Walnut Street. The performance, titled 'Understanding Struggle through Music: A Jewish Perspective,' will also feature works by Hans Krasa and Sholom Secunda, in addition to Shostakovich's famed String Quartet No. 8. In addition, there will be a 7 p.m. pre-concert talk by Philomusica violinist, Alexander Mandl, and RUACH founder/executive director, Joshua Richman.

On Monday November 16th, some of the biggest and brightest names in musical theatre came together to perform a special fundraiser event for the Harold Green Jewish Theatre Company. Hosted by Colin Mochrie and Deb McGrath, BWW was on hand as some of Canada's most talented performed selections of songs from Jewish composers and shows.