The setting is the Southern California home of a 60something widow, Nasrin (Niousha Noor), on the day of “mehmooni” — a one-year anniversary funeral gathering — of Nasrin’s husband, Manny. Nasrin’s ...

LENOX — Shakespeare & Company is transitioning from its summer schedule to fall with a world premiere — “Three Tall Persian Women” by Awni Abdi-Bahri. Set in the present in the Southern California ...

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Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Yellow, orange and red have entered the local landscape signaling the end to ...

Ahead of The Persian Version ‘s wide theatrical release on Nov. 2, Keshavarz spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about portraying the complicated generational relationships among one family’s women, ...

Some DJs just can’t get enough of the Electric Daisy Carnival. Case in point: Lady Faith, who will perform at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway for the 12th time this weekend. “Someone last year called it ...

“Persian Jewish melodies, to my knowledge, never have been transcribed,” and Cantor Jacqueline Rafii of Valley Beth Shalom has made it a life goal of her unique career to correct that absence. As one ...

Let nobody say writer-director Maryam Keshavarz, whose film won the audience prize at Sundance, doesn't know how to start a movie. The first time we see Leila, her alter ego in the autobiographical, ...

“The Persian Version” writer-director Maryam Keshavarz (right) and merchandiser Naz Harounian wearing the film’s promotional couture (Credit: Cliff Lipson Photography) Imagine asking a family member, ...

Every year on the eve of the Spring Equinox, the 13-day-long Persian New Year festival of Nowruz begins. It’s a moment of celebration marked by traditional rituals, like the Chaharshanbe Suri, which ...

While Roozbeh Farahanipour was testifying last week in support of Los Angeles County showing solidarity with Iranian women and girls protesting their country's brutal regime, his wife found their ...

In Maryam Keshavarz’s Sundance Audience Award winner The Persian Version, the choices, traumas and joys of multiple Iranian and Iranian American women are traced through a single bloodline. For the ...