ISRAEL THEATER REVIEWS

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, di...

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In Israel, the theater has become an old people's home. Sorry for the honesty. Young people, it seems, have long ago abandoned the theater. And the reason is clear- they are afraid. King Ubu, wants to bring the young people back to the theater - and he is going to succeed....

his play, based on Keret's short novella 'Kneller's Happy Campers', tells the story of a community of suicides from the point of view of Haim - a young man who begins the story shortly after he lands in the afterlife....

Skirt This Is Kodkod is a show all of us need to see. And when I write all of us, I mean everyone! From boys who are going to join the army, to soldiers, and even old people too....

The play GULLIVER is based on Jonathan Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels. After sixteen years at sea, Lemuel Gulliver returns home. Isolated in his room, he refuses to meet anyone, and talks only with two horses that he bought on his last trip and brought back with him. He is repulsed by everything a...

A hidden world lies inside the new Central Station building in Tel Aviv - a fantastical world filled with surreal visions to explore and discover....

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...

There are two actors, with the male actor playing seven roles. A lonely woman in her thirties, Liselotte, realizes that the years are passing by without a partner, and desperately tries to get herself a man by various means. Through no fault of her own, each of her prospective partners dies on the f...

There is no theater behind them, nor a sponsor backing them - SHLOFTA is truly an independent ensemble cast. That is just part of what makes their creation so fascinating and courageous: full faith in their art....

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....

Let me begin this review with a confession: I am not the world's most ardent rap fan. To those who love the genre, my apologies....

An hour-long show with a clear anti consumerism message. A juxtaposition of consumer culture with the peace and strength of 'gray life'....

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 thi...

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 alwa...

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 Floor...

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 M...

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 thi...

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...

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 t...

A group of women go on stage wearing white bathrobes and start singing Natural Woman. They slowly begin to remove their bathrobes… only to reveal little black dresses underneath. This act pretty much symbolizes the entire show: A presentation of womanhood in all its aspects. This English On St...