Musical

Sightings, sounds, and self-knowledge: Ten reasons to go out next week

Art, music, and dance come alive this week in Israel, from AI-driven installations to opera, jazz, and contemporary dance.

Blindness by choice, Israeli opera.
 Kevin Spacey on stage in Tel Aviv Wednesday night.

Kevin Spacey in Tel Aviv: Music, memories, and a bid for redemption

SIXTEEN STORIES of courageous women are spotlighted in ‘Heroines,’ here singing the song of Miriam with tambourines.

'Heroines! Songs & Soliloquies for the Soul': A new musical on Israeli heroines - review

Wicked

Pro-Palestinian Wicked fans slam special after plans to show Wicked: One Wonderful Night in Israel


Israeli-Polish conductor Gabriel Chmura dies at 74

His life was a deeply moving artistic journey that had the merit of rejoining cultures and hearts.

GABRIEL CHMURA

Bette Midler and Hans Zimmer to appear with Israel Philharmonic

The event will be broadcast globally on December 6 at 9 p.m. Israel time, and will be free for the public.

BETTE MIDLER

We simply do not need another ‘Fiddler on the Roof’

The team putting 'Fiddler' together sounds stellar. Tommy Kail (of 'Hamilton' fame) and Steven Levenson (who wrote 'Dear Evan Hansen') are on board.

‘Tevye the Dairyman’ played by Chaim Topol in the popular 1971 film, ‘Fiddler on the Roof’

'Hamilton' goes from Broadway to America's living rooms on Disney+

Shot over three days in 2016 at the stage musical featuring the original cast, the film lands on the Disney+ streaming service as America celebrates Independence Day weekend.

A man walks past the shuttered Richard Rodgers Theatre, home of the popular musical "Hamilton" after industry group the Broadway League said Broadway theaters will remain closed through January 3, 2021, in New York, U.S., July 2, 2020

Jaffa Festival for Contemporary Arab Culture returns for fifth year

The festival features original productions, premieres of special productions, as well as theater events, musical performances, film and more.

Jaffa festival

Plan for 'Fiddler on the Roof' movie remake ignites passions

A large cohort feels that a remake of Fiddler was unnecessary at best and sacrilege at worst.

Fiddler on the Roof

13 Jewish facts about ‘Hamilton’ that will make you smile

Some scholars believe that the Hamilton's mother, Rachel Faucette, might have been Jewish

Jewish facts about Hamilton

Max Stern takes on all musical comers

Stern has traveled a long and winding musical, cultural and personal path since crossing the Pond.

Max Stern: Out of the Whirlwind

Songwriter Adam Schlesinger hospitalized with coronavirus

Schlesinger, 52, who grew up in a secular Jewish home, has been in an unnamed hospital in upstate New York for over a week.

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

Lin-Manuel Miranda breaks up quarantined Israeli journalists' argument

The argument over which Miranda score was best was broken up by the man himself, in Hebrew.

Lin-Manuel Miranda