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


‘An American Tail’ musical adaptation hopes its Jewish immigration story will resonate in 2023

“An American Tail the Musical” will premiere at the Children’s Theatre Company in Minneapolis on April 25 and run through June 18.

 THE STATUE of Liberty seen from Ellis Island.

The Red Sea Guitar Festival lines up Haim Romano and other Rock icons

Romano, Shalom Hanoch and Mati Caspi, Hemi Rudner, Yael Deckelbaum, Beri Sacharoff and Evyatar Banai are among those performing in the three-day lineup

 HAIM ROMANO, one of the pioneers of Israeli rock

Raised on the women of rock

Holon’s Woman Festival features ‘Mrs. Me’ tribute to Joni, Aretha and Adele

 Anat Hitman from 'MRS. ME'

Jerusalem's Starcatcher to perform hit musical 'Into the Woods'

Starcatcher, in partnership with the Incubator Theater, will perform Stephen Sondheim’s musical Into the Woods at Jerusalem’s newly renovated Gerard Behar Theater from March 2 to 16

 SOME OF the show’s stars. (L to R) First row: Cinderella (Shelly Solomon); Baker (Jeff Fantl); Baker’s wife (Avital Sykora); Mysterious man (Howard Metz). Second row: Jack (Uri Shani); Milky-White (Kian Basinger); Witch (Sykes); Rapunzel (Shaked Yoskovitz).

Lola Marsh: Israel's next big musical export overseas

Most Israeli musical artists end up remaining big fish in the small Mediterranean pond. But Lola Marsh has become a staple on European stages.

 LOLA MARSH’S Gil Landau and Yael Shoshana Cohen onstage.

George Santos claims he produced Spider-Man musical on Broadway

Santos told potential donors of his supposed job as a producer on the musical, which is notable for its multiple injuries involving actors, poor reviews, technical mishaps and a financial failure.

 Newly elected Rep. George Santos (R-NY), who is facing a scandal over his resume and claims he made on the campaign trail, makes a gesture with his left hand as he casts his vote for House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy from the House Chamber during a 10th round of voting for the new Speaker.

A new look into Yemenite Jewish music with all-woman quintet

The all-woman vocal quintet is taking its last boy at the National Library in Jerusalem on February 1-2.

THE BANAT el Yemen vocal quintet will appear at this week’s Besod Kolot Rabim Festival at the National Library, in Jerusalem

Musical production 'Hello, Dolly!' is coming to Jerusalem

Hello, Dolly! is based on Thornton Wilder’s 1954 play, The Matchmaker (itself a revision of his 1938 farce The Merchant of Yonkers).

 BEZALEL MANEKIN as Horace Vandergelder and Sandy Cash as Dolly in ‘Hello, Dolly!.’

Baroque and roll

Composer Avner Hanani to unveil his latest creation at Christmas Concert in Jerusalem

 AVNER HANANI – his ‘Concerto alla moda’ will get its world premiere.

Mélanie Laurent brings expertise to curtain raiser of this year’s Israeli Harp Competition

Laurent certainly put her heart, soul and hours of practice into her instrumental love, and made good progress.

 MÉLANIE LAURENT: I had a very big crush on the sound.