Musical

Beit Lessin Theater presents this new musical exactly 50 years since the 1973 Yom Kippur War, about a group in the weeks before their induction into the IDF in 1970.

That play was Peter Handke’s Offending the Audience in which four actors analyze the nature of theater and then both insult their audience and praise its “performance.” 

A musical event bringing together female performers of all backgrounds.

We Will Rock You, the Queen musical, may be short on plot, but its 24 songs from the classic British rock band still makes an electrifying experience.

“This tale of our forefathers, of our sages, is about how we went through this and we didn’t think our city and our society could end, no one thought of that as an option...  but it happened.” 

It has taken more than a century for the Wandering Stars to make it into bona-fide theatrical form, but the Jerusalem-based Encore Educational Theatre Company is doing just that.

Harnick — whose paeans to Jewish tradition have become internationally appreciated as a reflection of cultural loss — died Friday at his home in Manhattan.

It’s not the only prayer recited every night: Ben Platt, playing Leo Frank, recites the Shema just before he is killed by a lynch mob, in the final moments of a musical dramatizing his 1913 arrest.

The performance was filmed at the Israel Festival in Jerusalem in 2018, as part of celebrations marking the 70th anniversary of Israel’s founding. 

German conductor Florian Helgath joins forces with the Israeli Vocal Ensemble