Musical
The king and the cobbler: How Illi Gorlitzky built the language of the Israeli stage
From defining Broadway-caliber theater to unionizing the nation’s performers, the legendary actor and advocate leaves behind a legacy that shaped Israel’s cultural fabric for seven decades.
Stephen Sondheim was unmistakably Jewish, but did he live a ‘Jewish Life?'
The last 15 years: Sarit Brown brings intimate musical ‘The Last Five Years’ to Jerusalem - review
Love vs.Time: Can Love Escape Eternity?
Joanna Merlin, original Tzeitel in Broadway’s ‘Fiddler,’ dies at 92
In an interview for the 2016 PBS documentary series “American Masters,” Merlin said she auditioned eight times before the director of “Fiddler,” Jerome Robbins.
What's new to do in Israel's capital?
Jerusalem highlights: October 6-12
Iconic film ‘Late Summer Blues’ becomes a stage musical - review
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.
The Drimer sisters mount a theatrical rescue mission for their father in new show
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.”
The third edition of the Witches Festival digs into a range of female sonic fare
A musical event bringing together female performers of all backgrounds.
'We Will Rock You': West End musical hit to make Israel debut
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.
‘Sacrifices’ dramatizes the Second Temple story on stage
“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.”
Classic Yiddish tale 'Wandering Stars' gets Jerusalem musical adaptation
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.
Sheldon Harnick, the lyricist of ‘Fiddler on the Roof,’ dies at 99
Harnick — whose paeans to Jewish tradition have become internationally appreciated as a reflection of cultural loss — died Friday at his home in Manhattan.
Cast of Broadway’s ‘Parade’ says Kaddish before each show
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.
