Ronit Suzan

With a long list of career achievements as a singer and actress, both on TV, theatre and performing live around the world, it's only natural that being the first Israeli actress to take over a leading role on Broadway, specifically in its longest running American musical, Chicago, is the latest addition to Shiri Maimon's highly impressive resume.

In less than twenty years it received an Off-Broadway production, an Off-Broadway revival, numerous productions worldwide and a big screen film. Last month, Jason Robert Brown's one of a kind musical The Last 5 Years, directed by Eidan Lipper, finally made its long-overdue Israeli debut and premiered at The Cameri Theatre.

In celebration of Israel's 70th Anniversary, Isaac Sutton and Broadway's Carrie St. Louis, who is currently playing Off-Broadway as Annette in Le Poisson Rouge's production of Cruel Intentions: The Musical, opened their Israel tour of their show Broadway-Israel at the Kiryat Motzkin Theatre Hall.

Next week the new Israeli production of the boundaries breaking musical Avenue Q, funded by a Jumpstarter campaign that was initiated by cast members Orit Lahav, Uri Elkayam and Boaz Nachum, will premiere on March 20 at Rozin Auditorium in Tel Aviv.

For over twenty years the award winning play Visiting Mr. Green has been presented around the world and been receiving great reviews, including in Israel where it won the 2001 Israeli Theatre Awards in the Best Play category. Last week Beit Lessin Theatre premiered its new production of the play, directed by Nathan Datner.

From The Charleston to The Great American Sognbook, with Scott Joplin, Marilyn Monroe and even Yidish, the brilliant piano duo Stephanie Trick (USA) and Paolo Alderighi (Italy) performed their arrangements of songs and tunes by all these and many more while performing on a tour around Israel as part of the Hot Jazz Series.

It was only a few months ago when Florian Zeller's comedy The Lie received its English language world premiere at the Menier Chocolate Factory in London, and once again Beit Lessin Theatre brings such new and recent material to Israel, with no other than Lior Ashkenazi as the director.

The winners of the 2017 BroadwayWorld Israel Regional Awards were announced this weelend, including big wins for the Israeli production of the musical Hairspray and for Beit Lessin Theatre and Habima Theatre. It didn't take long for the reactions from both winners and other nominees to arrive.

With a new story inspired by the internationally praised movie The Secrets, Beit Lessin Theatre premiered a new play under the same name, directed by Kfir Azulay.

A crime tragedy with comic elements, a clever plot, Yiddish, Jewish identity struggles, gangsters, circus acts, singing, Leonard Cohen songs, dancing and even a puppet, all these and so much more is happening in Beit Lessin Theatre's new play, King of Dogs, directed by Irad Rubinstain.

Beit Lessin could not have chosen a better way to welcome the new year than with premiering a fun production of the new comedy Un Animal De Compagnie (in English- A Pet), written by Francis Veber and directed by Alon Ophir.

It's becoming more and more common in Israel for independent theatre artists to use a crowdfunding platform in order to bring their work to life. A recent project that was successfully funded thanks to such a platform is the new play Psycho-Log, written and directed by Ofek Levy, which premiered this week in Tel Aviv.

The highly anticipated hit musical of the Israeli summer Hairspray finally premiered and revealed a most professional and joyous production that was definitely worth waiting for.

For such a highly renowned opera such as Madama Butterfly numerous productions have been presented in the past century all around the world, and rightfully so, but with the new exquisite Israeli-Italian production, under the innovative and fresh direction of Keita Asari, it's clear that there's always room for more productions such as this.

The highly anticipated musical of the summer is almost here and during this week's presentation producer and senior entrepreneur Maor Maimon as well as Ronny Merhavi (Tracy) and Talli Oren (Velma Von Tussle) shared a bit about the Israeli production of Hairspray.

In anticipation of its upcoming August opening night, this week the Israeli production of Hairspray gave a sneak peek at what they have in store for us this summer.

Next month will mark 6 years since the summer of the social justice protests in Tel Aviv, major national events that spanned nearly 3 months and finally reached the theatre in Beit Lessin's new play The Third Floor, written by Dafna Engel Mehrez based on a story from Eshkol Nevo's novel 'Three Floors Up' and directed by Maya Nitzan and Ella Nikolivsky.

As the Israeli Production of Hairspray is in full gear getting ready for a summer premiere this upcoming August, an official clip has been published today featuring the entire cast singing the show's finale song 'You Can't Stop the Beat'.

Following performances all around the world, the successful and highly praised Broadway musical Hairspray is about to reach the Israeli stage this upcoming August.

The comedy The Play That Goes Wrong that keeps winning over every stage it's performed on, whether it's in London where it won the 2015 Olivier Award for Best New Comedy or on Broadway where it was recently nominated for Best Play in this year's Tony Awards, received a Hebrew adaptation by Udi Ben Moshe, Gur Koren and Moran Rozen, thanks to Beit Lessin Theatre's latest production directed by Udi Ben Moshe.