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Hershey Felder and Amit Peled Schindler’s List clip from MUSICAL TALES I...

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Theatre Review: ‘The Pianist of Willesden Lane’ at Theater J

Mona Golabek stars with aplomb in the one-woman play, “The Pianist of Willesden Lane,” now running at Theater J adapted and directed by Hershey Felder. Lisa Jura was a prodigy pianist who dreamed of one day making her concert debut in her hometown of Vienna with her favorite piece, the Grieg Piano Concerto. She also […] See original article at: https://mdtheatreguide.com/2022/12/theatre-review-the-pianist-of-willesden-lane-at-theater-j/

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Gershwin Solo: all’Estate Fiesolana lo spettacolo cult del pianista e attore Hershey Felder

Gershwin Solo: all’Estate Fiesolana lo spettacolo cult del pianista e attore Hershey Felder

Gershwin Solo: all’Estate Fiesolana lo spettacolo cult del pianista e attore Hershey Felder Per la prima volta dal vivo in Italia! HERSHEY FELDER GEORGE GERSHWIN SOLO Martedì 14 settembre 2021 – ore 21.15 Teatro Romano – via Portigiani, 1 – Fiesole (Firenze) Pianista, attore e drammaturgo di origine canadese e ora residente a Firenze, Hershey Felder ha uno stile unico, a metà tra il concerto e…

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REVIEW: "George Gershwin Alone" at the Berkshire Theatre Group

REVIEW: “George Gershwin Alone” at the Berkshire Theatre Group

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Календарь культурных событий Большого Далласа c 5 по 21 февраля

Календарь культурных событий Большого Далласа c 5 по 21 февраля

Культурный центр Оак Клиффа представляет выставку «Светящийся лес» (Oak Cliff Cultural Center presents “Glow Forest”) Культурный центр Оак Клиффа​ ​ представляет художественную выставку «Светящийся лес». Это безмятежная и красочная среда джунглей, предлагающая укрытие от зимы и суматохи 2020 года. В качестве места для тихой медитации зрителям будет предложено заглянуть внутрь пустого магазина.…

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The Pianist at Willesden Lane - Play Review

The Pianist at Willesden Lane – Play Review

As a sole performer of “The Pianist of Willesden Lane”, Mona Golabek tells the story of her mother, Lisa Jura. Ms. Golabek is a concert pianist and in this deeply affecting, heart-rending memoir, adapted and directed by Hershey Felder, she tells tells the story of her mother’s youth, during World War II, in her mother’s voice.

  Lisa Jura was 14 in 1938, when Nazi Germany began to populate its…

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Hershey Felder's Our Great Tchaikovsky @ The Other Palace

Our Great Tchaikovsky at the Other Palace. Running until October 22nd.

Having tackled the likes of Chopin, Beethoven and Irving Berlin, Hershey Felder tackles the life and works of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in this fascinating 90 minute new play with music. Hershey Felder completely inhabits the Russian composer whilst interlacing the narrative with his own findings when researching the composer’s life. I have to say going into this, I didn’t recognise the…

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Interview with Hershey Felder about his online perfomances of the greatest musicians from Antonio Peláez Barceló on Vimeo.

Interview with Mr. Hershey Felder. He's both a musician and actor and has impersonated some of the greatest musicians like George Gershwin, Frederic Chopin, Ludwig von Beethoven, Irving Berlin, Claude Debussy, and Piotr Illich Tchaikovsky. Now he's performing all of them online and some other world premieres in his upcoming shows. Tickets and more info: hersheyfelder.net

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by Barbara Waldinger

During the question and answer session that concludes his solo production, George Gershwin Alone, Hershey Felder was asked by an audience member at Berkshire Theatre Group’s Colonial Theatre why he did not choose to be a concert pianist.  His response was that in performing his nine distinctive one-man shows he plays more concerts than any other pianist in the world:  almost four hundred per year.  To those who say that one cannot combine acting with piano-playing, Felder points to the shows he has created, each about a brilliant composer/pianist, using first person narration, accompanied by their music.

There have been other celebrated pianist/entertainers like Liberace and Victor Borge, but Felder’s plays with music are a unique blend of genres. Painstakingly researched, they are distinguishable from Michael Feinstein’s presentations because Felder is not only a singer/pianist but also an accomplished actor who knows how to bring a character to life and to interact with his audience.  In addition to Gershwin, he has resuscitated such greats as Chopin, Beethoven, Bernstein, Liszt, Berlin, and Tchaikovsky and has several more in the works.

Previously staged on Broadway, George Gershwin Alone is directed by Tony Award-nominee Joel Zwick, who has also collaborated with Felder on Beethoven and Maestro (Leonard Bernstein).  Zwick is an actor, drama professor, and a theatrical, television and film (My Big Fat Greek Wedding) director.  This run of George Gershwin Alone, unfortunately only one week in duration, should be seen before it closes.

In the course of a packed ninety minutes we hear scratchy old recordings of George and Ira Gershwin’s music and songs, we learn about music theory (who knew that the same two repeating chords that introduce  Summertime were given a totally different approach by John Williams in Jaws!) and study the critical and controversial influence of jazz.  Projected upstage are large photographs of the people and historical places prominent in Gershwin’s life as Felder traces his career in America and later Paris.  Beginning chronologically in 1898 with the composer’s birth in New York City to Russian immigrant parents, Felder regales us with personal stories revealing the ups and downs experienced by Gershwin, all the while playing his memorable music, including a complete rendition of Rhapsody in Blue.

Through Felder’s impersonations, we meet Gershwin’s family, friends, teachers, employers, and the many artists and musicians he knew. There was Al Jolson, for whom he wrote Swanee (he sounded as though he had “a megaphone in the middle of his throat”), and Ethel Merman (whose voice “sounded the same as Jolson”), Paul Whiteman, who commissioned  Rhapsody in Blue, which imitated the sound of a train on which Gershwin traveled and the noise of the cities he passed, DuBose Heyward and his wife Dorothy, who helped Gershwin adapt Heyward’s novel into the opera Porgy and Bess, and Kitty Carlisle, who admitted to  Felder in an interview for this show that her mother wanted her to marry Gershwin.

Though the performance is infused with humor, Felder also personalizes Gershwin’s physical pain, in the form of terrible headaches, which were eventually diagnosed to be the result of a brain tumor that killed him at the age of 38, as well as the emotional pain caused by some wretched reviews of An American in Paris and Porgy and Bess.  In addition, he  suffered the indignity of the anti-Semitic, racist attacks on his religion and music by Henry Ford in the Dearborn Independent.

The production is a pleasure for the eyes as well as the ears, thanks to  the work of Lighting Designer Michael T. Gilliam, whose colorful palette not only matches the mood of each piece, but can also focus, laser-like, on Felder’s hands, when the rest of the stage fades to black.  Sound Designer Erik Carstensen’s use of original recordings of well-known songs injects period authenticity into the production.

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After Felder’s performance was officially over, he asked the audience which songs they would like him to play (Gershwin wrote over one thousand of them).  He then located the music for the requested selections in the oversize books he kept on a desk nearby (some of which were original scores), and supplied the words as willing patrons sang along, following which he answered questions.  Felder talked of the great artists he has researched and impersonated in his shows, and how they put the human condition into their art in order to make the world more beautiful, more elegant, and finally, something we have lost today—more civil.  As the evening drew to a close, Felder played Clair de Lune by Debussy, whose music had a great influence on Gershwin—a perfect example of beauty in the world.

  GEORGE GERSHWIN ALONE runs from August 24—31.  Tickets may be purchased online at www.BerkshireTheatreGroup.org or call 413-997-4444.

Berkshire Theatre Group and Hershey Felder present GEORGE GERSHWIN ALONE by Hershey Felder.  Music and Lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin.  Directed by Joel Zwick; Associate Director Trevor Hay.  Cast:  Hershey Felder (George Gershwin).  Lighting Designer:  Michael T. Gilliam; Sound Designer/Production Manager:  Erik Carstensen.

Running Time:  90 minutes, no intermission.  The Colonial Theatre, 111 South Street, Pittsfield, MA.; from August 24; closing August 31.

REVIEW: “George Gershwin Alone” at the Berkshire Theatre Group by Barbara Waldinger During the question and answer session that concludes his solo production, George Gershwin Alone, …

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Below are a selection of the exciting starry theater that’s launching today through Sunday.

Shows I recommend that opened earlier this week and you can still see: Love, Loss and What I Wore; The Homebound Project, Tiny Beautiful Things, and Antony and Cleopatra

For more listings check out my Calendar of May 2020 Theater Openings. and my overview of ongoing series and platforms, Where To Get Your Theater Fix Online

Friday

By Jeeves The Shows Must Go On Andrew Lloyd Webber and Alan Ayckbourn’s musical comedy based on the Jeeves and Wooster stories by P.G. Woodhouse, in which young gentleman Bertie Wooster is frequently rescued by his manservant Jeeves.  Starting at 2pm ET and for 48 hours after that.

The King and I BroadwayHD The subscription service is offering the Lincoln Center Theater production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical for free starting at 8 p.m. and for 48 hours after that. It stars Kelli O’Hara, Ken Watanabe and Ruthie Ann Miles, and it’s lush.

The Shape of Things Reading of The Shape of Things, a play by Neil LaBute that’s a twisty tale of manipulation involving two couples, benefitting The Actors Fund. Starring Lena Hall, Jonah Platt, Katie Rose Clarke, and Tim Realbuto Featuring a Q&A with the cast and Neil LaBute. Begins at 7 p.m. on Youtube. One-time only.

How To Load a Musket Play Per View Drawing on a series of interviews begun by playwright Talene Monahon in 2015, the play weaves together verbatim conversations with Revolutionary and Civil War re-enactors. Live, one-time only. $5-$50

Gruesome Playground Injuries Redline Productions A one-time-only live reading on YouTube of Rajiv Joseph’s play about dysfunctional friendship starring Rose Byrne and Ewen Leslie with music by John Butler, as a benefit for this Australian theater company.

Saturday

Blithe Spirit Plays in the House A reading of Noel Coward’s play starring Leslie Uggams. To view, go to Stars in the House YouTube channel at 2 p.m. One-time live only. (does not stay up on site)

Sunday

Much Ado About Nothing All Arts The Public Theater production in Central Park starring Danielle Brooks!

Human Resources Playing on Air In this audio play by by Jason Gray Platt, tech start-up Diddly has a problem: their staff is whiter than a Coldplay concert in Vermont. Fortunately, Human Resources has a plan to “improve” Diddly’s corporate culture —at least in theory.

Hershey Felder as Irving Berlin A one-time live stream from Florence, Italy to benefit 13 U.S. theaters, including the Lyric Chamber Music Society of New York,, where you’ll be able to purchase a ticket for $50. My review of the solo show when it was Off-Broadway in 2018.

What Theater To Stream This Weekend May 8-10: Kelli O’Hara in The King and I; Danielle Brooks in Much Ado; Leslie Uggams in Blithe Spirit Below are a selection of the exciting starry theater that's launching today through Sunday. Shows I recommend that opened earlier this week and you can still see: 

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Season Announcement Wednesday

Stoked to be highlighting one of my favorite Bay Area theatre companies this week. TheatreWorks in the Silicon Valley is a staple professional theatre in the Bay Area’s Peninsula, and their productions are always worth the ticket price. They have announced their upcoming season, so let’s take a look at the goods!

Shows/Dates: Queen (October 7th - November 1st); It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play (December 2nd - 27th); Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years (January 13th, 2021 - February 7th, 2021); Sense and Sensibility (March 10th - April 4th); Hershey Felder as Monsieur Chopin (March 17th - April 18th): The Lifespan of a Fact (Dates TBA, April, 2021 - May, 2021); Ragtime (June 2nd - 27th); Nan and the Lower Body (July 14th - August 8th)

Venues/Addresses: Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts @ 500 Castro Street, Mountain View 94041

                            Lucie Stern Theatre @ 1305 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto 94301

Website: www.theatreworks.org

Facebook: “Like” them at- TheatreWorks Silicon Valley

Twitter: “Follow” them at- @TheatreWorksSV

Description: TheatreWorks is one of my absolute favorite theatre companies. Every time I see a production of theirs I am so impressed by their casting, technical designs, and impeccable delivery of the material. Over the years I have had the pleasure of seeing their productions of [title of show], The 39 Steps, The Light in the Piazza, The Mountaintop, Outside Mullingar, Daddy Long Legs, The Prince of Egypt, Frost/Nixon, and The Bridges of Madison County, among others. Start filling out your calendar so you can be ready for the productions coming your way at TheatreWorks; I hope to see you at the theater!

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Adapted and directed by Hershey Felder, the musical journey combines storytelling and performances of classics to illustrate how music can bring light and hope to the darkest of times.

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Hershey Felder brings Chopin vividly to life in reprise of solo show about composer's life and work - Chicago Tribune

Hershey Felder brings Chopin vividly to life in reprise of solo show about composer's life and work  Chicago TribuneUpdated piece is one of the versatile pianist-actor-writer's earlier works about musical greats....Hershey Felder brings Chopin vividly to life in reprise of solo show about composer's life and work - Chicago Tribune

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Hershey Felder-A Paris Love Story

Hershey Felder’s A Paris Love Story is a trailblazing portrait of Claude Debussy. With only a few more performances at the Wallis Annenberg Theater, you may need to wait for a return visit of this show or the next classical composer that he brings to life. This is a very personnel show because his connection to DeBussy resonates with how he coped with his mother’s illness when Hershey was eight…