Theater

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

Suitcase Packers is the flagship show of the Fulcro Theatre group and its first full show in Hebrew since the company made its move to Israel from St. Petersburg in 2022.

DECEMBER 22, 2025|ByINBAL AHARONI

MICHAL WEINBERG and Boris Repetur in ‘Suitcase Packers.’

Lior Berlin as Peter Bergson, who fought to rescue Europe’s Jews from the Nazis, in The Accomplices.

'The Accomplices': Restaging history of efforts to save European Jews from the Holocaust

Inside the creative process of a play that forces us to reflect on what happens when the world looks away – from the 1940s to today.

DECEMBER 6, 2025|ByALAN ROSENBAUM

Tom Stoppard poses with the award for Best Play for “Leopoldstadt” at the 76th Annual Tony Awards in New York City, US, June 11, 2023.

Tom Stoppard, acclaimed playwright of ‘Rosencrantz and Guildenstern,’ dies at 87

Tom Stoppard, the playwright who fused wit, philosophy, and emotional depth in works from Arcadia to Leopoldstadt, has died at 87, ending an extraordinary chapter in modern theater.

NOVEMBER 29, 2025|ByREUTERS

AI, artists, scholars revive 17th-century French playwright Moliere with new play

"What we thought was, let's try to recreate a bit of Moliere's creative process using the current state of AI," said Hugo Caselles-Dupre, a researcher in using AI for artistic creation.

NOVEMBER 18, 2025|ByREUTERS

Israel Festival to extend beyond Jerusalem for the first time

The theme of the festival will be 'A Dream of Healing Within a Reality of War.'

JUNE 7, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

Hermon mountain ridge covered with snow during 2022 winter, with the town houses of Majd al Shams.

Grapevine, June 1, 2025: Where’s Annie?

The movers and shakers in Israeli society.

JUNE 1, 2025ByGREER FAY CASHMAN

Babies born amid Israel's next baby boom.

Yair Vardi, Israeli dance visionary, dies at 76

Yair Vardi, the dancer-choreographer who shaped Israel's contemporary dance landscape, died of cancer.

MAY 26, 2025ByNERIA BARR

These New York Jewish arts organizations have been defunded by the Trump administration

Winitsky said he saw the cuts as a direct attack on groups that might undercut the administration.

MAY 6, 2025ByJACKIE HAJDENBERG/JTA

'The Reservoir,' written by Jake Brasch and directed by Shelley Butler, which had its world premiere at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, won the Jewish Plays Project's annual contest.

Battling cancer, famed Jewish conductor Michael Tilson Thomas prepares for his last concert

Facing a return of his brain cancer, Tilson Thomas says goodbye with one final concert in San Francisco.

APRIL 18, 2025ByPENNY SCHWARTZ/ JTA

Michael Tilson Thomas conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood, in Beethoven's 9th Symphony, the Ode to Joy, on August 28, 2022. It was Tilson Thomas's last concert with the BSO, where he began his career in 1969, as its assistant conductor and pianist.

Facing the Red Sea: ‘La Bohème’ opera in Tel Aviv gives the gift of imagination - review

Performed against a massive window, that, at times, alternately presents the audience with the Eiffel Tower or the City of Lights at night.

APRIL 6, 2025ByHAGAY HACOHEN

‘LA BOHEME’ with Yael Levita as Musetta.

Samaria Theater: A look at West Bank's first repertory theater's debut performance

Artistic director Nathan Ravitz wants to reach all sorts of audiences, secular and religious, and make the theater accessible to those who can’t travel to big cities due to traffic or security.

APRIL 5, 2025ByBASIA MONKA