ISRAEL THEATER REVIEWS

This German play, written by Wolfgang Borchert, was written back in 1946 but it didn't get to the Israeli stages up until now. This fact might come as a surprise since it deals with an issue which is highly relevant to the Israeli audience: A soldier who's coming back from the war and finds out that...

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...

Have you ever asked yourselves if the way you live your lives is really the way you want to live? Or is it the right way to live? In this Incubator Theater comedy, written and directed by Eli Haviv, we get to see 3 different stories, 3 pieces of life, that manage to touch some aspects of life tha...

This classic play by Federico Garcia Lorca is probably one of his less famous works, but this fresh new version by Scapino Theatre Company surely shows us that it's definitely an unheralded masterpiece. It is the story of an elderly bachelor, Don Perlimplin (played by Dror Teplitzky), who is pers...

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...

It's a very difficult task to write a review on this show, especially for me. I can obviously just see it as a theatrical event and write about the way it's written and performed. But there's so much more to it than that. This play has also a great deal of public and journalistic significance. ...

What would you do if you were sure you're about to die in 2 days? When Dov Schwartz, a theatre critic, asked himself that question while he visited the local cemetery a ghost appeared and advised him to buy a grave before he passes away. From this point on many weird events occurs in his life ...

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 fr...

When you walk into a theatre space that has a strong smell of gun powder and see a dead person already lying on the stage you know that you're going to have a special experience for the next few hours. That's the case with Hanoch Levin's 'Hachayal Haraze' (The Thin Soldier). This production open...

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 mome...

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....

Once a month a new jazz concert is presented in various venues around the country for one week as part of the very popular Hot Jazz series, produced by Shamayim productions. In this month's event singer Deborah J. Carter and the Mamelo Gaitanopoulos Sextet brought the greatest hits from the jazz ope...

From the moment you enter the theatre and see the spinning set in Haifa Theatre's stage adaptation of Woody Allen's 1992 film Husbands and Wives you can already feel what a special evening is headed your way with this production, directed by Moshe Naor and adapted by him and Amir Kliger....

This past Friday night the Kiryat Motzkin Theatre Hall opened its 9th season of the successful classical series 'Classical Excitement', led by music director Gil Shohat, which truly lived up to its distinguished reputation....

The renowned Beit Zvi school of the performing arts has a long history with the internationally acclaimed musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat but since 2007 the musical wasn't revived until this year and it's very clear this production was well worth waiting for....

From what it looks like in the play The 39 Steps, apparently 4 actors playing dozens of characters are more than enough to create a fun evening filled with laughter, especially when it's presented at the Library (Ha'Sifriya) Theatre in Ramat Gan and directed by Mitko Bozakov....

With an all-star cast of over 40 actors, a 16-piece live orchestra, groundbreaking visual effects and numerous detailed settings there's no doubt that Habima Theatre has done it again with its exquisite modern revival of Les Miserables, directed by Moshe Kepten....

Immediately following a highly praised 6 months run at the Phoenix Theatre in London the production of Guys and Dolls went on an international tour starting with a week and a half in Israel, playing 11 shows at the Tel Aviv Performing Arts Center....

As part of their 2016 European Summer Festival Tour, this evening Queen and Adam Lambert performed at The Yarkon Park in Tel-Aviv in front of an audience of over 55 thousand people....

Israeli productions of musicals are recently getting better with each new show and raising the bar even higher is the most impressive production of Billy Elliot, a musical based on the successful 2000 film under the same title, with music by Elton John and book and lyrics by Lee Hall....

The Birdz are back by popular demand, and they're as funny as ever. Last October, I had the pleasure of reviewing Tziporela's ODD BIRDZ, when the hilarious sketch comedy troupe made their US Debut at New York City's The Player's Theatre. While back with the same show, some bits have been tweaked and...

'Shrek' the 2010 broadway musical is preparing for a debut in Israel this August....