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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.

It's been over a year since the Israeli production of the Off-Broadway musical Ordinary Days, directed by Eidan Lipper, premiered at the Cameri Caffe Theatre in Tel Aviv. A humble New York City setting, four actors and a pianist brilliantly bring Adam Gwon's touching story and beautiful music to this small theatre.

Ever since the New Israeli Opera was created in 1985 there's usually been one guest international production in each of its seasons. This year the Royal Opera of Wallonie from Liege, Belgium, brought its fun production to Tel Aviv, Gioacchino Rossini's opera buffa La Gazzetta (The Magazine) which is presented for the first time in Israel, over 200 years after it was written.

Statistics say that you're probably reading this review on your smartphone, and if you're not it's currently located very close to you. To tackle this modern issue of our addiction to smartphones which have taken over our lives, the multitalented duo Guy Amir and Hanan Savion decided to go back to their theatre roots and created the original comedy 'Halfon 6 - A'alek [so called] musical' for the Incubator Theatre, directed by the theatre's director Arik Eshaet.

A low lit stage, cynical and sluggish leading character, acoustic background music and realistic lyrics are only a few of the reasons why there's no musical more Israeli today than the Jerusalem based Incubator Theatre's fringe rap opera The City. Perhaps that's why for the past four years this show has become such a phenomenon and now not only has new dates for its national tour but also includes performances with its English version.

It has been 26 years since Beit Lessin Theatre last presented the female version of the comedy The Odd Couple, one of Neil Simon's most famous plays, and just like every other classic it doesn't matter how times have since changed- this timeless play is still as funny and great as it has always been.

The Israeli production of BILLY ELLIOT, one of the big winners of the 2016 BroadwayWorld Israel Regional Awards, made a special thank you video in response to their winnings announcement. In the BWW exclusive video Best Younger Actor winner Shon Granot Zilbershtein and Person to Watch winner Sahar Lev-Shomer expressed their excitement and thanked all their fans and BWW readers who voted for them.

It has been over 25 years since the late great playwright Anat Gov has written the play Love of Death as a result of both her parents dying of cancer. Today, a little over four years since she passed away from cancer, Beit Lessin's production of the play at the ZOA House in Tel Aviv is tragically fresh and relevant as ever.

The Israeli Opera presents 'Lucia di Lammermoor' by the Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti, conducted by Daniele Callegari, directed by Javier Ulacia according to the direction of the Israeli Opera's 2012 production by Emilio Sagi and performed by international and Israeli soloists, The Opera Orchestra - The Israel Symphony Orchestra Rishon LeZion and The Israeli Opera Chorus conducted by Ethan Schmeisser who will also alternate as the opera's conductor.

For an Opera that is described as dark, intense and ruthless and its plot is filled with murder, betrayal, insanity and death, at its end it might become even more tragic, as expected, but in Gaetano Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor the journey through all that has many beautiful and captivating moments, especially in this revival of the Israeli Opera's 2012 production, originally directed by Emilio Sagi as the revival director is Javier Ulacia.

In this month's 'Hot Jazz' series' jazz concert, 'Cannonball Adderley's Gold Saxophone', saxophonist Antonio Hart brought his alto saxophone to the Haifa stage for a final show after a week of touring the country with a most talented group of both American and local musicians.