Jordan Herskowitz was born and raised in Texas and spent a good deal of his late teens as Bruno the bull, the mascot for a baseball team. It allows for a neat metaphor about identity for his rights-of-passage autobiographical solo show.
But there is scant detail here about why being a Jew in the lone star state is a big or difficult deal.
He needs to strip away the conventional teen angst stuff about himself and write more about his family — who he entertainingly performs — and his brother, who lived and tragically died with cystic fibrosis. And he needs to do it quickly before he takes his show to Edinburgh.
