Theater

From ‘Hairspray’ to ‘South Park,’ composer Marc Shaiman tells a story shaped by Jewish humor

In his new memoir “Never Mind the Happy: Showbiz Stories from a Sore Winner,” Marc Shaiman reflects on a life shaped by chutzpah, fate, disappointment

Shaiman writes about the bitter and the sweet of a long, successful career with setbacks that still sting.
Ido Nahmias and Shirel Azizian in A Doll’s House SOURCE Itai Salhov.

Jerusalem highlights: February 6-12

Goliath is dead!

All women production retells David’s journey from shame to servant king

MICHAL WEINBERG and Boris Repetur in ‘Suitcase Packers.’

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


Jerusalem highlights: June 20-26

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

 Lama Ani Hai in a concert.

Jerusalem highlights: June 13-19

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

 Gilding workshop

Beit Lessin Theater makes history with first performance in South Korea

An Israeli production of “Antigone” wows South Korean audiences at the Busan Festival, marking a historic debut.

 Antigone at Beit Lessin.

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.'

 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.

 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.

 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.

 '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.

 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.

‘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.

 A SCENE from 'Journeys of Redemption.'