Performance

Jerusalem highlights: November 14-20

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

Micha Ullman’s ‘Water’ at Zion Square
 The entrance to the Jerusalem Theatre is seen in a photo taken May 21, 2024

My Word: Making music amid the noise - opinion

TANGO GREAT Marcos Ayala: The secret is the embrace.

Tango maverick Marcos Ayala dances defiance in Israel

YONATAN BARAK will be doing stand up in English.

Punch comedy festival: Laugh lines in Tel Aviv coming in December


A season of reflection: The Israeli Opera at 40

The opera's new season, opening in November, brings together seven productions.

RICHARD STRAUSS’S ‘Salome,’ directed by Itay Tiran.

Sderot to light up in blues for Music, Soul, Cinema and Resilience Festival

The Music, Soul, Cinema and Resilience Festival is coming to the Sderot Cinematheque in December.

EHUD BANAI (right) with guitarist Nushi Paz.

An evening of Puccini opera in Jerusalem

Two operas will be featured in performances at the Jerusalem Theatre.

PUCCINI is on the way to Jerusalem.

Music from another dimension: Tuval Haim honors slain hostage brother with new album, show

Achim (Brothers) is a nine-song project that communicates messages of growth, pain, and maintaining hope in the face of hardship. 

TUVAL HAIM

Kevin Spacey to headline 'One Night Only' concert at Tel Aviv’s Hangar 11

Kevin Spacey will headline a special Tel Aviv show, performing jazz standards and recounting stories from his decades in film and theater.

 Kevin Spacey to perform in Tel Aviv .

Spell ‘highly entertaining’: Encore! Youth put on wonderful performance of 'Spelling Bee' - review

Although the show’s message is that life is not all about winning, to me everyone involved in the production was a winner.

Olive, William, Marcy, and Mitch in 'Spelling Bee.'

Turkey bans Jewish singer Enrico Macias’s concert citing fears of anti-Israel protests

The Istanbul governor’s office late on Wednesday said that Macias’s performance scheduled for Friday evening in the city has been banned “after intense calls for protests against the concert.”

ENRICO MACIAS.

A dance of redemption at Tel Aviv ballet

St. Petersburg's Eifman Ballet returns to Israel for a production of ‘Crime and Punishment’ in Tel Aviv.

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, Eifman Ballet.

All the world’s a living stage: The 34th Int'l Puppet Festival is here

The forthcoming festival takes place August 17-21 with a veritable cornucopia of productions and other items lined up over the five days.

A PERFORMANCE at the upcoming International Puppet Festival.

Is this for real? Food for thought at 4th Israeli Comedy Fesitval

Ephraim Kishon Israeli Comedy Festival takes place at its perennial base of Beit Mazia, and various other locations dotted around town, for the fourth time, August 17-21.

‘DONALD AND ABDUL’ and Attention, Sergeant Major! will be two of the performances at the Israeli Comedy Festival.

Royal Opera House cast member raises Palestinian flag during performance

Videos of the incident show a besuited official attempting to take the flag from the protester, but did not succeed.

 Cast members bow as one holds a Palestinian flag, during the curtain call of Il Trovatore at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden in London, Britain, July 19, 2025 in this still image taken from social media video.