Hanoch Levin

1. FILM BURLESQUE The Burlesque Lounge has its best days behind it. Tess (Cher), a retired dancer and owner of the venue, struggles to keep the aging…

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Ichsh FisherBy Hanoch LevinDirected by RoniPinkovitchCameri Theater 1/10/10It’s not easy being a Hanoch Levin character. They do not like the skin…

‘All the world’s a stage,” goes one of Shakespeare’s most quoted sayings. Well, perhaps not all the world. Apparently, there’s a corner of Ariel in…

Ever since the 1970 Cameri Theater debut of Hanoch Levin’s Queen of the Bathtub, a scathing satire of prime minister Golda Meir’s policies in the…

In May 1991 local critics shook forth streamers of superlatives. Most of Israel’s theater world gasped, and many slowly went pea-greenly jealous.…

Since artistic and general directors Moshe Naor and Dror Garber joined forces two years ago, the Haifa Municipal Theater’s future has become…

The Jerusalem Khan and the Beersheba Theaters led the pack with five and four awards, respectively, in the 2009 Israel Theater Prizes Theater Awards…

Yossi Bin Nun obviously likes a challenge or two. Despite the commonly-held image of the artist as a free soul, following his or her muse along a…

Playwright/director/educator Yehoshua Sobol, 71, will receive a Life Achievement Prize at the Israel Theater Prize awards ceremony on May 14 at the…

The Cameri Theater plans two years ahead, explains general manager Noam Semel, because if one of its productions, as often happens, is a mega-hit,…

On the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, innovative film programs will showcase some little-known aspects of the history of that period. You might…

Anxiety StruckBy B. Michael and Ephraim SidonEdited and directed by Moti KirschenbaumHabima, March 28Anxiety Struck, or “Nifga’ay Harada” in Hebrew,…

Arguably the most feted member of the Israeli classical music fraternity, Gil Shohat undeniably has a high international and domestic profile and…

He lives in an 18th century castle in Tipperary and has a studio in downtown Los Angeles. He has four grown children, all artists, and a…

The Israel Opera opens its season with the world premiere of The Child Dreams, an opera by Gil Shohat based on a play by Hanoch Levin, one of…

As the government prepares to speed up aliya from Ethiopia in the coming months, veteran immigrants here say that the failure to prioritize a…

To launch its 25th anniversary season, the Israel Opera (IO) presents The Child Dreams, a new opera by prolific composer Gil Shohat, directed by Omri…

At the end of studying the book of Job, Rabbi Yohanan would say: "A person's end is to die and an animal's end is for slaughter and all are poised…

A literary-musical event will mix the poems of Hanoch Levin and Bertolt Brecht at noon on Friday at the Mediatheque in Holon. As part of the Let the…