Jerusalem theater

Engolement: Once you find your inner golem, life in the shtetl will never be the same - review

Life in the shtetl has been peaceful, but now things are changing. Now the golems face a fateful decision, caught between duty to the community and the urge to discover who else they might yet become

Setting up square.
LEFT: AARON KRAUS, ‘Standing Prayer (Amidah).’ RIGHT: MIRIAM  JASKIEROWICZ ARMAN, ‘Begetting Life.’

‘Jerusalem of Gold’ exhibit brings five Israeli artists to the capital’s theater

Cinderella meets the prince – rehearsal of the Jerusalem premiere of ‘Cinderella,’ opera by Massenet.

Jerusalem Theatre hosts Massenet’s Cinderella in a one-time opera event

Artist Tamar Aluf with her exhibit ‘Painting Longing’ in the Jerusalem  Theatre’s Sherover Foyer. Paintings behind her from L, clockwise: ‘Horizon  of a House,’ acrylic (2025); ‘The Fabric of Life’ (2025); ‘Longing’ (2025).

Painting longing: Journey through loss, memory, and renewal


Clowning about… seriously

Swiss performer Martin Zimmermann blurs the lines between the inanimate and the living in ‘Hallo’

Martin Zimmermann

Sounds good – and looks good, too

“Music is a living medium formed between people at a given moment, in a unique form. It comes into being at a particular time and in a spontaneous manner.”

THE COMBINATION of pianos and percussion instruments infuses new textural life into 'The Planets.'

Unsettling discovery: ‘In a Stranger’s Grave’

When one’s Jewish identity is suddenly stripped away, what is the price of cleaving to one’s convictions in the face of authority?

THESE PHOTOS of some of the cast members in action were taken last week at a rehearsal of ‘In a Stranger’s Grave.’

58th Israel Festival continues to grow more Israeli

Lineup includes Itim, Clipa and Zik Theaters, Gilad Kahana’s ‘Beats Per Second’

SWEDEN’S CULLBERG Dance Company will perform ‘Figure a Sea’ by Deborah Hay with music by Laurie Anderson

Theater review: The kite runner

Kite Runner demonstrates the metastatic evil of prejudice.

A SCENE FROM ‘The kite runner’

Funny in French

Oh La La film festival finds France’s funniest films

A SCENE from ‘Return of the Hero’ with Jean Dujardin and Melanie Laurent

Life is still a ‘Cabaret’

The beloved Broadway musical comes to Jerusalem’s AACI stage.

TWO MEMBERS of the cast from ‘Cabaret.’

Khan takes on a young look

The “Kimat Mukhan” project is a play on words inferring the embryonic nature of the performers’ artistic development and work.

A recent rendition of S.Y. Agnon’s ‘In the Prime of Her Life.’

Shakespeare comes to life in Jerusalem Public Theater’s ‘As You Like It’

There is a new English-speaking theater group in town, and for its first act it is proving that Shakespeare is fun.

'As You Like It' at the Jerusalem Public Theater

Excuse me, Mr. President

The AACI brings Stephen Sondheim’s ‘Assassins’ to Jerusalem

HOW TO make a comedy about presidential assassins: (at left) Howard Metz as Sam Byck; Miriam Metzinger (left) as Sara Jane Moore and Rachel Raanan as Squeaky Fromme