Performance

Jerusalem Highlights: December 26 – January 1

What’s new to do in Israel’s capital?

Zion Movie Theater
MICHAL WEINBERG and Boris Repetur in ‘Suitcase Packers.’

Fulcro Theatre looks for happiness in Hanoch Levin’s ‘Suitcase Packers’

JOHNNY BOMBINO as Emperor Überall.

Viktor Ullmann’s 'Der Kaiser von Atlantis' as a manifesto against tyranny - review

Winter Dreams at the Botanical Gardens.

Jerusalem Highlights: December 12-18


Cameri Theater honors dramatist Hanoch Levin in wartime production - review

The homage production by the Cameri Theater marked the late Levin’s 80th birthday.

 A SCENE from ‘Whoever Wasn’t Born Is Missing Out.’

New theatre production ‘Collective Phenomena’ reveals story of defiant Soviet-Jewish scientists

The director of Collective Phenomena, Semion Aleksandrovskiy, shared a little of this complex history via his own family story.

 ‘COLLECTIVE PHENOMENA’ director Semion Aleksandrovskiy.

Avishai Cohen’s musical journey returns to Eilat

Israeli bassist will perform at the Red Sea Jazz Festival and with the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra

AVISHAI COHEN’S trio provides the foundation upon which his compositions take on new life.

Zombies galore at Surround Festival in Tel Aviv

October, a new musical performance by Daniel Sapir and the FTW Orchestra, is a bold attempt to express in music the pain, rage, and sorrow felt after the October 7 terror attack.

 ‘ZOMBIE DRIVE IN’ will be presented at the Surround Festival.

Jonathan Nosan: The Broadway, cinema contortionist now living in Israel

Jonathan Nosan has created a unique life as a performing artist, entrepreneur, coach, and ceramic artist. 

 Contortionist and artist Jonathan Nosan.

Mother's musical tribute brings Holocaust and October 7 together

On October 7 anniversary, Tel Aviv Opera House hosts world premiere of 'Kaddish,' a composition combining Theresienstadt's musical legacy and personal loss from Hamas attack.

Oria Ricardo.

‘Until Death Brings Us Together’ play lights the dark - review

Moving within a clear, precise set designed by Niv Manor, characters pace back and forth between a large mound of earth and a moon-like sphere in the heaven.

 ‘UNTIL DEATH Brings Us Together.’

Avant-garde classicalists Ensemble Meitar to commemorate events of October 7

Taking place in Tel Aviv’s Museum of Art, on October 5, the performance, Hope Dies Last, derives its title from a poignant source.

 THE ENSEMBLE MEITAR, with Amit Dolberg (bottom right).

Oct. 7 Supernova survivors take to the stage in a new production that promises healing

Having begun at the Beit Zvi acting school as a theatrical exercise, the October "She Wanted to Dance" premiere will begin a tour with shows planned well into next year.

 A SCENE FROM ‘She Wanted to Dance.’

Israeli star Ishay Ribo to perform in Madison Square Garden in nearly-sold-out show

Ribo appeals to Jews across the religious and socioeconomic spectrum in Israel and around the world, an extraordinarily rare feat in our extraordinarily divided times. 

 ISHAY RIBO in concert.