Playwright Jennifer Maisel has written plays that have been described as, "a sort of David Lynch on estrogen” and "inventive and sophisticated". Tonight her award winning "The Last Seder", in co-production of The Ensemble Studio Theatre-LA and Greenway Arts Alliance, opens at the Greenway Court Theatre on Fairfax. The The play tells the story of four sisters, who come back to their childhood house to celebrate Passover before their father moves into a nursing home.......

Happy Passover! I may have been raised Catholic, but thanks to my "Jewish Mother" Regina Barton, I can still cook a decent seder. My mother still teases me about my slurred summary of my first Passover, "You say a prayer, you drink some wine. You say a prayer, you drink some wine. You say a prayer, you drink some wine. I'm going to bed." I was twelve. Spelled either Charoset, Haroset, or Charosis, this......

"Why is this night different from all other nights?" you might ask. Well, it's the first night of Passover, and even folks who will be sitting down to a seder somewhere in the Southland tonight will also be asking the same thing, because it's one of four questions that are posed in the traditional pre-dinner ceremony. Passover is a hands-on Jewish holiday, where families and friends gather around the table to honor the Israelites' exodus......