Israeli Theatre
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Revolutionary up-to date research of Israel's national anthem Hatikva at Beth Hatefutsoth
A special program presenting a revolutionary up-to date research of Israel's national anthem Hatikva – from ancient Sphardic Jewish prayer, to classical music by Mozart and Smetana; from Rumanian folk songs to first Jewish settlements in Israel "Aliya Rishona" …
A fascinating quest from Yassi to New York, from Bergen-Belzen to Jerusalem, from Herzel claiming :our hope is not yet lost…"to rap-singers shouting :
The dream will die if hope ceases to cry |
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Dance/theatre adaptation of the S Y Agnon story will be presented at Tel Aviv's Cameri Theatre
Nephesh Theatre's production of "The Lady and the Peddlar", a Dance/theatre adaptation of the S Y Agnon story will be presented at Tel Aviv's Kameri Theatre from March 14th 2010.
Nobel prize laureate S Y Agnon's story revolves around a Jewish peddler who loses his way in the forest during a storm and finds refuge with a Christian widow. |
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HaJilljul: A Satiric Metamorphosis in Tel Aviv
By Ayelet Dekel
Gabi Gadot is every Israeli mother’s blue-eyed dream – an ambitious high-tech whiz who has created a computer virus guaranteed to destroy any hard disk in less than 4 seconds. In HaJilljul, Yoni Lahav’s super-condensed (only 30 minutes long) satiric musical rendition of Kafka’s Metamorphosis translated to contemporary Israeli culture, Gabi wakes up on the morning of his big presentation to find that he has turned into…an Arab! Directed by Tal Brenner, HaJilljul premiered December 23 at Tzavta as |
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The approaching Hannukah season in Tel Aviv:The Short Theatre Festival
By Ayelet Dekel
The approaching Hannukah season seems to have an endless supply of festivals, with an abundance (or is it excess?) of fanfare that surrounds them, but don’t let the noise drown out the sound of a few truly interesting voices. The Short Theatre Festival, now in its 12th year, will take place at Tzavta from December 23 – 26th. The festival offers an opportunity to experience a variety of different individual voices and perspectives, within a theatrical framework that encourages experimentation and |
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The Acco Fringe Theater Festival 2009 Celebrates its 30th Anniversary
The Acco Fringe Theater Festival will be celebrating 30 years of creation in Acco on the holiday of Succot, October 4-8, 2009, with special performances from Israel and around the world. The Festival Celebrates its 30th Birthday
The crusader castles of Acco have been home to original, avant-garde and revolutionary theater every Succot holiday since 1980. Showcasing a large collection of Israeli theatrical productions, both traditional and alternative, thirty years of activity have turned the fe |
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From the “Hermitage” , for the first time in Israel, the Opera “Juditha Triumphans” by Antionio Vivaldi
By Andy Dubrov
“Juditha Triumphans” is the only surviving oratorio out of the four that the Vivaldi composed. The production will be conducted by Maestro Sergei Stadtler, one Russia’s senior conductor (biography to follow), who will bring with him five opera singers from St. Petersburg - four mezzo-sopranos will interpret (as is the tradition) male roles and one soprano will take on the role of Judith. |
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Martin Heidegger and Hannah Arendt in 'talking heads' play by Savyon Liebrecht
By Michael Handelsaltz
"The Banality of Love" is the first play by Savyon Liebrecht that is not an adaptation of one of her stories but was written as a drama, and it aims high: Not only in the choice of characters, historical and controversial figures, philosophers Martin Heidegger and Hannah Arendt, but also in speaking on topics ostensibly too abstract for the theater and contradicting dramatic logic - not to mention the impatience of the Israeli audience for anything that is not "action." This is a play with "talk |
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Israel Theater Prize ceremony to honor Ya'akov Bodo
By Helen Kaye
Veteran Yiddish theater actor Ya'akov 'Yankele' Bodo will receive the 2009 Meir Margalit Lifetime Achievement Prize at this year's Israel Theater Prize ceremony at the Beersheba Performing Arts Center on April 3. |
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Exhibition: Hebrew Theatre Costumes From the 1920s Until Today at the Jerusalem Theatre
The Jerusalem Theatre presents the best of Israeli theatrical shows each night. Every evening the production crew arrives behind the scenes, and once the preparations are over, the made-up and dressed-up actors go on stage - and the magic begins. When the show is over, the actors take off their costumes and return to real life. Their costumes return to the wardrobe, carrying with them secrets and stories from the world of performing arts. |
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Itsche Heystir - Yiddish Chamber Opera in Tel Aviv
The opera depicts a contemporary existential situation characterized by alienation and difficulty forming mutual connections. In this case, each of the characters in the opera aspires to eternalize his or her existence by producing a child. |
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The 5th Festiladino (The International New Ladino Song Competition) is on its way
The International New Ladino Song Competition, sponsored by Yitzhak Navon, the fifth President of Israel and Chairman of the National Authority for Ladino Culture, will take place this year on Wednesday, December 31, 2008 at the Jerusalem Theatre. |
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Hillel Mittelpunkt's new play Anda tells the story of a survivor of Bloc 10 in Auschwitz
By Zipi Shohat
Keren Tsur feels freedom, genuine freedom. She is liberated, freed from being pretty, in the role of Anda in Hillel Mittelpunkt's new play. The lovely actress does not conceal her disgust for the worship of beauty. "I don't want to sound like a nasty person, because I'm not, but in our profession, external appearance assumes a central place, and talent is pushed aside." |
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A long way off Broadway: The 29th Acre Festival of Alternative Israeli Theatre
By Andrew Tobin
The earliest recorded theatrical event occurred in 2000 BCE with an ancient Egyptian passion play celebrating the god Osiris. In the interceding 4000 years, the basic structure of theater has remained relatively static. For better or worse, the Acre Festival of Alternative Israeli Theater has been violating theatrical conventions for the last three decades. |
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Houses torched in Israeli riots
Rioters in northern Israel have torched two houses and badly damaged several others in the third night of tensions between Jewish and Arab residents of Akko, Israeli officials say. Arab residents were evacuated before their homes were set alight, nobody was injured but police remained on very high alert, Micky Rosenfeld, a police spokesman, said on Saturday. |
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Nephesh Theatre celebrated its 30th anniversary
By Tzlil Yachin
It was a hot day in July when Nephesh Theatre celebrated its 30th anniversary at Tel Aviv's Tzavta Theatre complex. It began first thing in the morning with the offering of Nine plays from the Current Hebrew Repertory.These were all presented simultaneously in Tzavta's three different spaces.
It heated up even more when in the early evening audiences were treated to the Tel Aviv premiere of "The Golem of Prague." This production marked the reunion of Nephesh Theatre's co-founder Gabriel Emanuel |
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Dostoyevsky's 'Crime and Punishment' in Tel Aviv Fringe Theatre
By Ala Zuskin-Perelman
The Malenky Theatre is an Israeli theatre performing in Hebrew. Formally, it is a "fringe" theatre, since it has neither permanent accommodations nor public daily appearances. Actually, it is not really "fringe" since its choice of repertoire and serious approach to acting are far from being marginal. |
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Who can speak for me? Highlights from IsraDrama 2007
By Richard Stein
It seemed at first that Nurith Yaari had bent over backwards to demonstrate that Israel’s theatre scene is not shy about self-reflection, self-criticism and, perhaps, even self-flagellation, based upon the plays she selected for inclusion in IsraDrama 2007. |
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Israel Festival 2008: Possessed by Dybbuks
The 2008 Israel Festival will host some 1,000 dance, music and theatre artists from Israel and the rest of the world, celebrating Israel's 60th anniversary. It will also mark the 90th birthday of Habimah National Theatre with a special production of The Dybbuk, which remains the symbol of Habimah to this day, performed by Polish theatre TR Warszawa, as well as three international premiers of Israeli Dybbuk productions. |
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A profound insight you won’t find on CNN or guided tours
By Rebekah Maggor
Late last month, leading theater artists, producers and critics from 23 countries arrived in Tel Aviv for a six-day festival of Israeli plays. Organized by the Institute of Israeli Drama, the IsraDrama Festival brought together these international guests to attend productions, lectures and symposia on Israeli theater and to build future artistic collaborations. |
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Menachem Mendel on stage in Tel Aviv
By Maxim Rayder
Entitled I Forgot the Essential (Shachti et Ha'ikar), this moving comic-drama tells of a husband who leaves the shtetl in search of earnings - and adventures - leaving his wife Sheina Shendl behind with the kids. He tries everything, from the stock exchange to insurance to the Jewish matching business. He always fails, as there is always someone who cheats or exploits him. Of course it is he himself and his fantasies who are his own worst enemy. |
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Peretz's "The Golden Chain" (1907) opend in Tel Aviv
"The Golden Chain" (1907) by Y.L Peretz, is considered to be the crest of his dramatic writing. The play portrays three generations of a Hasidic court that are on the verge of inhalation. The play opens with the last generation, Rabi Moishe that is desperately trying to invoke his ancestors to come to his rescue and help him lead the congregation, but he turns out to be a weak leader and he is incapable of saving his court. As this happens in flashback scenes the play takes us back to his grandf |
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A Night in May a play by A.B. Yehoshua
The play describes the atmosphere in Israel during the period leading up to the Six-Day War as seen through the eyes of one Israeli family. The action takes place on the night of 22 May 1967, when Egypt announced the closure of the Straits of Tiran and thus fired the first shot of the war. The family, caught up in their own personal problems, are brought face to face with the echoes of the looming war through their experience during this historic night. |
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The big sea is more than just a place,
By Ben -Ami Feingold
The heroes of "This Big Sea" are a religious couple from Jerusalem. Pnina the wife, is happy with her lot. Noah the husband, is unwilling to adapt to the religious lifestyle of Jerusalem's environment. He wants to move to Tel Aviv to build a law career and rebuild his relationship with his wife. In his view, matchmaking is not enough. He wants to love and fall in love, and remarry without a matchmaker – but only with the help of love. According to him, there is no better place than Tel Aviv. On |
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Welcome to Tel-Aviv, Mr Gogol!
By Ala Zuskin-Perelman
On March 14, 2007, I saw a performance at Tel-Aviv's Tmoona Theatre. Tmoona, a "fringe" theatre, is supposed to be something marginal, yet it is not. It is a true theatre, with its own artistic language. The performance is Revisor (State Inspector) by Nikolai Gogol, a Russian classic of the 19th Century. |
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A musical means of teaching Jewish values
By Greer Fay Cashman
Yisrael Lutnick is a very talented young man, who authored a book that became the basis of a musicale for which he wrote the music and the lyrics. Not only that but at the world premiere in Jerusalem, of 'If I Could Rewrite the World' he also played the piano in the five-member band. In a nutshell, the storyline is about a New Jersey boy called Aaron Cohen, who sees that his parents' marriage is breaking up, and wants to do all that he can to patch things together and make them love each other a |
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Get the Tissues Ready! Hesia the Orphan is Back!
By Ben -Ami Feingold
Plays by Yaakov Gordin are among the classics of Yiddish theatre. He wrote and presented dozens of plays. Most of them focus on the Jewish family, as it experiences all types of tensions and breakdowns. "Hesia the Orphan" (Die Yetomeh Oder Hesia Fon Korotshekrok), written 100 years ago, is a typical example. The part-Jewish, part-assimilationist, nouveau-riche family of a Jewish lord, set at the turn of the century in Russia, decides to 'adopt' Hesia the orphan, the niece of the landlady. |
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The Summer Nights Festival : Jerusalem Mosaic
The following August will surely be a hot one- particularly in Jerusalem: five consecutive nights this late August will unfold a diversity of sound and color, combined into a spectrum of new artistic creations and tendencies. |
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Yossi Banai (1932-2006 ) The King of Israeli Stage will not sing again
By Doron Rosenblum
Eulogizing Yossi Banai is not just a painful and terrible task for the many who loved him; it is also nearly impossible: Any formal eulogy could only diminish his character and possibly deviate from the well-balanced good taste that characterized him. And what can we say? That he liked French chansons? That he was an actor? A director? A writer? None of these descriptions can accurately depict the presence in Israeli life that was Yossi Banai - a presence that was more than the sum of its parts, |
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University of Haifa Set to Dedicate Modern Arts Center
It is already being called "Israel's Pompidou Center" because of its function and daring architecture. The edifice is the new University of Haifa $12 million arts center building, to be dedicated as the Dr. Hecht Arts Center on January 26. The Pompidou reference is to the ultra-modern cultural center in Paris. |
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From The Dybbuk to Best Friends: A Short Look at Israeli Theatre
By Linda Ben-Zvi
It is almost impossible to read a newspaper or listen to a television newscast without finding some item about Israel: the latest movements toward peace in the region, continuing confrontations between Arabs and Jews, terrorist attacks. Yet, for all the attention the country receives, very little has focused on its culture, the area that provides the clearest insight into the nature of a society and the forces that shape its political and social actions. Few forms of culture are more revealing o |
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Sunshine through the darkness
By Hadass Ben-Ari
Her works have been read, translated, sung and studied for generations, but Kadia Molodovsky is best known for her Yiddish children's poetry. Now, 30 years after her death, Molodovsky's book Open the Gate is making its stage debut during the Magical Tale Festival at the Yaron Yerushalmi theater in Neveh Tzedek beginning August 23. Molodovsky was born in 1894 in Kartuz Bereza, where she studied children's education in a progressive heder and a Russian secondary school. Following in the footsteps |
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Rabin musical premieres in Tel Aviv to mark his assassination’s decade anniversary.
By Ofer Petersburg
November 2005 marks Rabin’s assassination’s decade anniversary. Israeli artists found an original way to celebrate the late prime minister’s life: with song and dance. The Rabin musical premieres at the end of August in Tel Aviv. An Israeli theater plans to put on a play commemorating the last 10 years in the life of late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who was shot by a Jewish ultranationalist in 1995 and whose legacy lives on as one of the most influential peace leaders of the 20th century. |
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King David is Alive and Kicking in Jerusalem
David recalls, from a surprising point of view, the day he passed the throne to his son Solomon. He is a greater figure than any of Shakespeare’s kings, but a cynic with a sly smile and the charm of an aging redhead, gossiping and ceaselessly speaking with God. A new monodrama at the Khan Theatre, Jerusalem, inspired by Joseph Heller’s book God Knows Starring Avinoam Mor Haim |
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A.B. Yehoshua novel 'A Journey To The End of The Millenium ' on the Stage
By Boaz Trinker
The Israeli Opera celebrates its' twentieth birthday with a new piece which brings to the stage a work of one of the most prominent Israeli authors. In “A Journey To The End of The Millenium” it is the year 999 and Ben Attar, a Jewish merchant from Tangiers, along with his two wives and Muslim partner, undertakes a voyage to Europe. Through this trip, Attar hopes to preserve his business partnership with Abulafia his nephew, now made uncertain due to his bigamous marriage. The journey is the beg |
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Mr. Nimoy speaks about his Jewish identity and more in Israel
By Boaz Trinker
Mr. Nimoy speaks about his Jewish identity with much pride and determination, “Many years ago, on my first trip to a Star Trek convention in Germany, I had a difficult time. I refused to go back there for a while, but then I was invited by my colleagues from Trek to a convention in Bonn. I hesitated, so I turned to my wife’s Rabbi for advice. He asked me if the people attending this convention knew I was Jewish, and offered that I should talk about this fact so that they know this man whom they |
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Israeli Theatre scene gathers to award prizes that mark the latest achievements in the field
By Boaz Trinker
Every year the entire Israeli Theatre scene gathers to award prizes that mark the latest achievements in the field. The winners are voted on by the awards comity, which consists of 80 "academy members" that spend the year watching the various shows. The ceremony spans mainly the large repertory theatres (Habima, The Cameri, Beit-Lessin, Gesher, Khan Theatre, Haifa Municipal Theatre, Beer-Sheva Municipal Theatre) but among the 18 prizes given out there are also categories for best fringe show and |
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The season of kings in the Tel Aviv Habima National Theatre
By Boaz Trinker
It started off this summer with a revival of Nissim Aloni's groundbreaking play "The King's New Clothes". This, his second play after the monumental "Most Cruel – The King" from 1954,The season continued with another remake – that of Ya'akov Shabtai's "Crown Crazy". The central character of this play is none other than King David of the bible,Lastly, a third resurrection in the works plans to showcase "The King and the Cobbler", by Sammy Gronemann
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The World Jewish Film Festival :Tel Aviv, October 28-November 3, 2004
The World Jewish Film Festival, the first of its kind in Israel and the Jewish world, will feature selected films from the finest international Jewish film festivals. In September 2002, the Jewish Eye Association was founded to launch and produce a World Jewish Film Festival in Israel, in cooperation with the Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive, and will be hosted at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque. Tel Aviv, October 28-November 3, 2004 |
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Hanoch Levin. Five years and still dead
By Michael Handelzalts
In "You and I and the Next War," the satire that (along with "Queen of the Bathtub") made Hanoch Levin such a well-known name in Israel, there are two skits about coping with death. The Widow Robinson, the character in the skit of that name, receives a visit from her comforters who expect her to be in mourning and remain faithful to the memory of her husband, who had died five years ago. The visitors are surprised to discover that it is the widow (and the orphan) who understand that life must go |
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The 6th International Theater Workshop in Tel Aviv 6-25 July 2004
By Rivi Feldmesser-Yaron
The 2004 workshops and master-classes given by world- renowned artists who have each developed a unique theatrical method. These artists create a synthesis between different forms of art and are therefore inspiring in their innovative and fascinating approach. We are certain that taking part in these workshops and master-classes will enrich the personal “tool-box”. The 6th International Theater Workshops 6-25 July 2004 in Tel Aviv |
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Yiddishpiel Theatre in Tel Aviv pays tribute to Dzigan and Schumacher
“Dzigan and Schumacher Forever”, a tribute to the comedy duo, is a newly adapted play by the Yiddishpiel Theatre in Tel Aviv. The play, written by Kobi Luria, takes place in the world of truth, recounting an imaginary renewed encounter between Dzigan and Schumacher – two giants of the Yiddish humor and satire scene, who shared years on stage, as well as a mutual destiny. The play tells the life story of Dzigan and Schumacher, including an account of their artistic paths and segments of song and |
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Songwriter, composer Naomi Shemer dies at age 74
Composer and songwriter Naomi Shemer died Saturday morning of an illness at the age of 74, Army Radio reported.
Shemer, among the most productive songwriters in Israel, was awarded the Israel Prize for Hebrew song in 1983. The prize's panel said Shemer was awarded the prize because "her songs are a wonderful fusion of lyrics and melody which express so adequately the people's covert feelings." Among her most notable songs is "Jerusalem of Gold", written in 1967 and first performed during the Is |
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Hebrew Book Week :from an open, urban fair into an entertainment festival
By Shiri Lev-Ari
Eighty years ago, in the summer of 1926 on Rothschild Boulevard in Tel Aviv, the concept inspired by the late Ms. Bracha Peli, founder of Massada Publishing, later became Israel’s major cultural event– The 43rd annual Hebrew Book Week( 9-19 June 2004) featuring 150 publishers displaying their wares in over 60 cities for the next 10 days. Book lovers can stroll the fair every evening from 6 till 11, at Ganei Yehoshua in Tel Aviv, the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, Castra Mall in Haifa, Big center in |
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Dance as documentary - The Other Dance Festival in Tel Aviv
By Tamar Rotem
The Other Dance Festival, is intended for creative artists who have not found fulfillment in the usual frameworks. But not all the works fit the definition of avant-garde, because of their conformism and their resemblance to scores of other works. Lovely works like that of Shlomit Pondminsky, "Belly," which presents an entire life inside an imaginary box on the background of a stomach's gurgling, or that of Dana Rotenberg, "Under Study," which examines couple relations in a unique and classical |
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Searching For Mordechai Vanunu -one man play in Tel aviv Jaffa
An actor’s journey in the footsteps of Mister V. A man who was sentenced to eighteen years of solitary confinement, for revealing state secrets. An associative collage in time and space, that travels through childhood memories, the relationship with the father, the work at the nuclear plant, philosophy studies at the university, ideological doubts and finally – the fateful decision. The hallucinatory event is based on a free interpretation of the actual events. Following Mordechai Vanunu's relea |
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The Israel Prize for Lifetime Achievement : from Jewish folklore to Haifa and Jerusalem Cinematheques
By Shiri -Lev Ari
Prof. Dov Noy and Prof. Menachem Brinker have been awarded this year's Israel Prize for Hebrew and General Literary Research.The Israel Prize for Lifetime Achievement will be awarded on Independence Day to Lia van Leer, the founder of the Haifa and Jerusalem Cinematheques. "It's very exciting and joyful," van Leer said yesterday after Minister of Education and Culture Limor Livnat called to notify her of the award. |
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Morenika- Ladino musical premiere at Jerusalem Festival of Arts
By Jenny Hazan
The main stage at the Beit Shmuel Culture and Education Center of the World Union for Progressive Judaism in Mamila will be converted into the Old City of Jerusalem on March 28, when under the auspices of the third annual Jerusalem Festival of Arts, local playwright Yossi Davara will see the premiere of his musical, Morenika.
Taking its name from a Ladino term of endearment meaning "black-haired girl," which is used in reference to the play's female lead, Chanu, Morenika tells the story of a y |
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Nathan the Wise is hosted by The Cameri Theatre in Tel Aviv
The play’s story is set in the land of Israel during the middle ages. In a bloody war the Moslem army defeats the Crusaders. A young crusader falls captive, a moment before he is beheaded he mysteriously receives pardon from the Sultan Zalach- a - Din. Aimlessly he wanders around the lanes of Jerusalem and encounters a fire ensuing within the house of Nathan the merchant otherwise known as “ the Wise ”, saves his daughter and falls desperately in love with her. |
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The Cameri Theatre, Tel Aviv: Taking the Pulse of a Nation
By Glenda Frank
What does Israeli identity mean," asks Noam Semel, the general director of the Cameri Theatre in Tel Aviv.
"Theatre," he answers, "should be a mirror in front of our society." In many ways, the Cameri Theatre tells the story of Israel and the peace process. For three decades, the Cameri has been daring to confront the uncomfortable underbelly of Israeli life even while it produces some extraordinary and highly polished theatrical events. |
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Billy Crystal Project – "Peace through the Performing arts" in Jerusalem
By Shai Bar Yaacov
The evening will deal with the complex relationship between artistic and pedagogical concerns in the creation of educational theatre projects in mixed groups of Jewish and Palestinian actors trying to use theatre as a tool for peace education. |
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Stacie Chaiken's Looking for Louie in Tel Aviv
A second-generation Russian Jewish American (sometimes) Redhead goes off in search of the mysterious great-grandfather, about whom nobody would ever speak... |
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Hanoch Levin's play for the first time in Arabic at Haifa University Theatre
This is the first time ever Levin's play is to be performed in Arabic, and it is part of a special project opening the new season at the Haifa University Theatre: a dual language production of Hanoch Levin's play, to be performed alternately in Hebrew and Arabic. This follows the successful production of the play in English at Columbia University earlier this fall, |
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Shylock Festival in Jerusalem
By Jenny Hazan
After more than 400 years, Shakespeare's Shylock finally had his day in court at the Pargod Theater on Jerusalem's Bezalel Street on Saturday night, where an intimate crowd gathered to witness the infamous usurer from The Merchant of Venice take his creator to court for his theatrical vilification of the Jew. |
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Best of the east
By Barry Davis
Haim Shiran is either an eternal optimist or just plain stubborn. The director of the Beit Inbal Ethnic Arts Center in Tel Aviv has been in the entertainment business long enough to know that, when times are rough, most people just stay home. It can't be easy keeping a cultural establishment going these days, particularly when the leisure time activity in question is decidedly non-mainstream. |
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Hanoch Levin's LUGGAGE PACKERS, to be performed alternately in Hebrew and Arabic by students
Opening the 2003/04 season is a special project of a dual language production of Hanoch Levin's LUGGAGE PACKERS, to be performed alternately in Hebrew and Arabic by the students and graduates of the Department of Theatre, University of Haifa. This follows the successful production of the play in English at Columbia University earlier this fall, where Haifa University Theatre's Amit gazit and Tali Itzhaki were invited to New York as guest artists especially to produce this play. |
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Point Of Departure- 100th Anniversary of Gertrude Kraus
Gertrude Kraus, born in Austria in the year 1903, is a symbol and example of an artist who combined ideology and art, determination and a strong belief in her way. She was the representative of the new Expressionist, innovative dance. Gertrude was a "total artist", engaged in painting, sculpting and music as well. Her instructive life story reflects the true spirit of a universal artist, whose art breaks conventions and unites people. Gertrude Kraus lived and created in Austria and Germany bet |
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The 2nd SmallBama student theater festival October 27-28-29, 2003
By Yotam Benshalom
This is a unique festival dedicated to original short works of creative students from Tel Aviv University. It will take place at the beginning of the academic year, starting on October 27, 2003, with shows starting every evening at 18:00 at the Mexico Building in the university for three consecutive nights. You are invited to attend a young students operated a one of its kind (unique?) in our country theatrical happening (We have hecked.) Free entrance to stage design art, cafe theatre and rock |
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The 24th Acco Festival is Off and Running
The 24th Acco Festival of Alternative Israeli Theatre, 2003, under the auspices of the City of Acre (Acco) in cooperation with the Old Acre Development Company, will take place on the intermediate days of Succot, October 11–14, 2003.
The “Alternative Jewish Theatre Around the World” project, sponsored by the Global Arts Intiaive at The People to People center of the Jewish Agency is entering its second year. |
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Notzar Theatre:The Milstein Connection
By Gad Nahshon
Notzar is not a simple political theater but its last successful original production of The Border and the Return do discuss the issues of war, violence, victims, refugees. The issue of refugees is a highly sensitive one since we, the Jews, were the eternal tribe of wandering refugees. One the other hand, we have to challenge the pressure of the Palestinian millions of refugees who would like, in principle, to return to Israel, blaming the Jews or the Zionist for their plight. |
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Neighbors at The Galilee Multicultural Theater
Neighbors two friends, and neighbors, Nassim Dakwar an Arab musician, and Pablo Ariel a Jewish actor, meet and have an intimate and non-verbal dialogue .The show is built like a non-verbal poetry book at The Galilee Multicultural Theater . |
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Mike Burstyn Celebrates 50 Years on stage on Yiddish tour to Israel
This week Mike is on SPECIAL TOUR to ISRAEL performing in 7 sold out performences of How wonderful to meet again ("Yeden abi mzeit zich ")acoopaned with the ballet company of Jacky Levi , the Israeli Comendian Gadi YagilSinger Swetlana Kondish and Orchestra conducted by Composer Ilan Shas |
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The Performing Arts Lab Launched in Jerusalem
By Avital Baikovich
HaMa’abada (The Jerusalem Performing Arts Lab) is a unique center for the performing arts, committed to the presentation of innovative creative works and designed to serve as an international center for excellence. Founded in 2003 by JVP Community and located in the heart of Jerusalem, HaMa’abada aims to draw upon Israel’s manifold creative resources to foster its next generation of exceptional artists. HaMa’abada will embrace and enhance the creative diversity inherent in Jerusalem and beyond, |
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The 6th round of Mirele Efros in Israel
By Zipi Shochat
Mirele Efros is a prosperous merchant who finds her son a beautiful wife from a poor but prestigious family. This match changes her life: the daughter-in-law rebels against her, the parents-in-law try to exploit the marriage financially, and Mirele’s sons isolate her and assume control of her business. Eventually the business deteriorates and Mirele remains without resources, cut off from her family. In this familial saga, the characters wallow in unnecessary power-struggling over matters th |
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2003 Jerusalem Prize for the Freedom of the Individual in Society awarded to Arthur Miller
By Moti Sandak
Mayor of Jerusalem, Mr. Uri Lupoliansky, and the Jerusalem Prize Jury Chairman, Professor Avishay Braverman, announced that renowned American author and playwright Arthur Miller is the recipient of the Jerusalem Prize for the Freedom of the Individual in Society for 2003.
The Jerusalem Prize will be awarded to Arthur Miller during the 21st Jerusalem International Book Fair, which will be held from June 23-27 at the International Convention Center Binyanei Ha’ooma in Jerusalem. |
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Israel Prize Laureate in Theatre 2003
By Moti Sandak
Actress Zaharira Harifai and Playwright Yosef Bar-Yosef
Will receive this year's Israel prize for outstanding achievements in theatre.
The prize will be presented by Minister of Education, Culture and Sports Limor Livnat
On Yom Haatzmaut (Israeli Independent Day) at the National Ceremony to be broadcasted on the Israeli TV |
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The 2002-3 International Competition at Tel Aviv University
New cultural works on Jewish themes in music, drama, dance, poetry, literature, cinema and the fine arts by a network of talented professionals in Israel and the Diaspora, |
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Thespis 2003 /11-15 May 2003
A five day celebration for theatre lovers in Jerusalem 11-15 May 2003: four foreign companies from the USA, Venice, Bologna and Prague, as well as the best acting schools in Israel, perform some of the best plays and present the artists of tomorrow. The performances are hosted by the Khan Theatre, the Gerard Behar Center and Bet Shmuel in Jerusalem. |
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Ten grants to ten new Jewish plays
By Moti Sandak
Ten artists have received a monetary grant of NIS 30,000 each from the Mifal Hapayis Council for Culture & Arts for the purpose of writing plays based on folk legends. In writing their plays, they will cull their material from the pages of the Midrash and the Talmud, as it was collected and edited by Bialik, Ravnitzky and others in the “Book of Legends.” |
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