Theater

Sderot Women’s Theater premieres dark October 7 comedy play ‘Laughing on the Border’

In the new play, Sderot Women’s Theater Ensemble uses black comedy to process the October 7 massacre.

|ByILANA SHTOTLAND
EVEN IN rehearsals, the trauma remains close to the surface.
Cats are famously well-groomed, and Tziporanayim is just the place.

Jerusalemite of the Week: Candice Nemoff showcases her artistic soul - interview

"My mom taught me how to do my own nails when I was young... I never really looked into classes until my husband encouraged me."

|ByAARON REICH
Night Work (see Saturday).

Jerusalem highlights: August 14-20

What's new to do in Israel's capital?

|ByHAGAY HACOHEN
‘ALL SPIRITS’: The Hebrew title, ‘Kol HaRuchot’ plays on meaning of ‘To hell with it!’

To hell and back: A political ballet for Israel’s age of war

Seven choreographers, one live pianist, and a palindrome that refuses to end.

|ByNERIA BARR

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
YAIR VARDI

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
A SCENE from 'Journeys of Redemption.'

‘Horse with No Name’ is a movie with no plot

A new film, 'Horse with No Name' by Asaf Asulin, opens in theaters around Israel on Thursday.

APRIL 3, 2025ByHANNAH BROWN
Asaf Asulin and Yasmin Ayun in ‘Horse With No Name.’

Postponed by war, Acre Fringe Festival to highlight resilience and art

Israel’s Acre Fringe Festival is back this April with bold, thought-provoking performances.

MARCH 25, 2025ByNERIA BARR
‘EVERYTHING REMAINS Alive’ offers a poignant and touching exploration of post-traumatic stress disorder through the eyes of a loving wife.

'Oklahoma!' shines in Israel: LOGON’s latest musical triumph

Theater review: Light Opera Group of the Negev Netanya Community Center

MARCH 23, 2025ByGLORIA DEUTSCH
THE LOGON presentation of ‘Oklahoma.’

Donald Trump reportedly expressed affection for ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ at Kennedy Center meeting

Trump has not previously been reported to be a Fiddler fan, but the musical has intersected with him before.

MARCH 21, 2025ByPHILISSA CRAMER/JTA
US President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron (not pictured) attend a press conference at the White House in Washington, DC, US, February 24, 2025.