"The Accomplices" reopens in LA...

From Steve Schub:

This just in from today's "Broadway World" (see below)... xoxo, and back on
the barricades, Yer Schubieshake
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THE ACCOMPLICES Comes To The Odyssey Theater This April 25th. Runs
Thursdays-Saturdays at 8pm Sundays at 2pm until June14th.
The Fountain Theatre reprises last season's hit production for a limited run.
"Bottom line: A powerful play that will get your blood racing and brain
thinking, skillfully acted and directed. Schub is compelling as the
impassioned Bergson."
- Hollywood Reporter
For Tickets and Info: http://www.fountaintheatre.com/whatcoming.html

by BWW News Desk

This April, the critically acclaimed, multiple award-winning Fountain
Theatre brings back last season's sold-out production of The Accomplices
by former New York Times political reporter Bernard Weinraub. The true
story of firebrand Peter Bergson, who shook up the U.S. State Department
and the American Jewish establishment in his fight to rescue European Jews
from the Nazis, is back with Steven Schub heading the cast:
"Schub dominates the stage with his intense performance as Bergson" -
Cynthia Citron, Santa Monica Daily Press. "A dynamic portrayal by Schub"
- Buzzine. "Schub smolders and explodes" -RLN News.

Helmed by director Deborah LaVine ("Lavine skillfully melds a fine cast
into a gripping production" - LA Weekly) this Fountain Theatre production,
presented in association with the Israeli Leadership Council,
re-opens at the Odyssey Theatre in West L.A. for a limited guest
engagement April 25 through June 14.
One low-priced preview takes place on April 24.

What the U.S. government and American Jews did - and didn't - do to help
Jews fleeing the Nazis is the subject of Weinraub's provocative new play
based on true events. In 1940, Hillel Kook arrived in the U.S. fresh from
the underground resistance in Palestine. Changing his name to Peter
Bergson, he sought aid for the rescue of European Jews from the Nazis.
Shocked to find himself blocked by both the Roosevelt administration and
the Jewish establishment, Bergson spearheaded an extraordinary campaign of
public rallies, hard-hitting newspaper advertisements and lobbying in
Congress in his one-man fight to save millions and end the conspiracy of
silence and inaction that continues to haunt us to this day.

"For many years this remained a little-known footnote in American
history," comments Fountain Theatre artistic director Stephen Sachs. "It's
a fascinating story that casts U.S. foreign policy during World War II in
a surprising light."

A long-time reporter for The New York Times, Bernard Weinraub was a
political correspondent in Vietnam, London, New Delhi and Washington D.C.,
including the White House, before moving to Los Angeles in 1991 to cover
the film business. It was while he was based in D.C. that he was assigned
to cover a documentary about Peter Bergson called Who Shall Live and Who
Shall Die? by the young filmmaker Laurence Jarvik. The subject stayed with
him, and a dozen years later he began work on his own play. The
Accomplices went on to win a Stellar Network award, leading to its
premiere in New York by The New Group in March, 2007 and a Drama Desk
Award nomination for Best New Play. The West Coast premiere at The
Fountain played to SRO houses for an extended, ten-week run. "Weinraub
brings a seldom-dramatized chapter of history to vivid life... a
consistently lucid and fast-paced production" wrote theater critic Don
Shirley in LA Citybeat. "GO!," agreed the LA Weekly: "a gripping
production." The Hollywood Reporter called The Fountain Theatre production
of The Accomplices "A powerful play that will get your blood racing and
your brain thinking, skillfully acted and directed."
"Steven Schub plays Peter Bergson with the zeal of a man fighting for what
he believes is right" - wrote Carol Kaufmann in Stage Happenings.

Recently, there has been a resurgence of interest in Bergson's story. The
Fountain re-opening is scheduled to coincide with the observance of
Holocaust Remembrance Week. That same weekend, Pierre Sauvage's
documentary short about Bergson, Not Idly By - Peter Bergson, America and
the Holocaust, premieres as part of the Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival,
and this summer will see the release of Against the Tide, a documentary
narrated by Dustin Hoffman. In 2003, David S. Wyman and Rafael Medoff's
book, "A Race Against Death: Peter Bergson, America and the Holocaust"
included previously unpublished letters, including a scathing indictment
of the Roosevelt administration's inaction by a Treasury Department
official.

The mission of the Israeli Leadership Council is to fortify and enhance a
productive and continuous relationship between Israeli-Americans and the
State of Israel through community empowerment, activism and philanthropy.
This production is sponsored by Debbie and Naty Saidoff.

The Accomplices opens on April 25, with performances Thursdays, Fridays
and Saturdays at 8 pm and Sundays at 2 pm through June 14. One preview
performance is scheduled on Friday, April 24 at 8 pm. Tickets are $30.00,
except the preview which is $15.00. The Odyssey Theatre is located at 2055
S. Sepulveda Blvd. in West Los Angeles. For reservations and information,
call (323) 663-1525 or go to www.FountainTheatre.com.