Musical

‘Leave One Day’: Low-key musical about French chef - review

"Leave One Day," the feature film directorial debut of Amelie Bonnin, includes characters who express their thoughts in a nice, low-key way.

Amelie Bonnin and Juliette Armanet attend the "Partir Un Jour" (Leave One Day) photocall at the 78th annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on May 14, 2025 in Cannes, France.
Lady Larken and Sir Harry.

Once Upon a Mattress proves fairy tales are funnier when turned upside down

Blindness by choice, Israeli opera.

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

 Kevin Spacey on stage in Tel Aviv Wednesday night.

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


The Drimer sisters mount a theatrical rescue mission for their father in new show

That play was Peter Handke’s Offending the Audience in which four actors analyze the nature of theater and then both insult their audience and praise its “performance.” 

 ANAT (L) AND Nurit Drimer with Amir Meyuhas (standing) in ‘Good Place Where All is Bad.’

The third edition of the Witches Festival digs into a range of female sonic fare

A musical event bringing together female performers of all backgrounds.

 NOUR DARWISH

'We Will Rock You': West End musical hit to make Israel debut

We Will Rock You, the Queen musical, may be short on plot, but its 24 songs from the classic British rock band still makes an electrifying experience.

 ‘WE WILL Rock You’ presents a fast-paced, fist-pumping, foot-stomping anthem to individuality.

‘Sacrifices’ dramatizes the Second Temple story on stage

“This tale of our forefathers, of our sages, is about how we went through this and we didn’t think our city and our society could end, no one thought of that as an option...  but it happened.” 

 DESTINY REA and Michael Maliakel in the English-language musical ‘Sacrifices.’

Classic Yiddish tale 'Wandering Stars' gets Jerusalem musical adaptation

It has taken more than a century for the Wandering Stars to make it into bona-fide theatrical form, but the Jerusalem-based Encore Educational Theatre Company is doing just that.

 ‘WANDERING STARS’ tells the tale of a love lost in the shtetl and refound in New York.

Sheldon Harnick, the lyricist of ‘Fiddler on the Roof,’ dies at 99

Harnick — whose paeans to Jewish tradition have become internationally appreciated as a reflection of cultural loss — died Friday at his home in Manhattan.

Sheldon Harnick accepts the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre during the American Theatre Wing's 70th annual Tony Awards in New York, US, June 12, 2016.

Cast of Broadway’s ‘Parade’ says Kaddish before each show

It’s not the only prayer recited every night: Ben Platt, playing Leo Frank, recites the Shema just before he is killed by a lynch mob, in the final moments of a musical dramatizing his 1913 arrest.

Ben Platt and Micaela Diamond, stars of the musical Parade, perform during a celebration for Jewish American Heritage Month at the White House in Washington, US, May 16, 2023.

Film version of ‘Soul Doctor’ Broadway musical to hit US theaters for one night

The performance was filmed at the Israel Festival in Jerusalem in 2018, as part of celebrations marking the 70th anniversary of Israel’s founding. 

Broadway billboards in New York City's Times Square

Israeli Vocal Ensemble teams up with Florian Helgath

German conductor Florian Helgath joins forces with the Israeli Vocal Ensemble

 FLORIAN HELGATH: The mass for double choir is in my Top Five.

Israeli theater to perform 'You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown' musical

The Stage TLV offers an entertaining version of the iconic Peanuts comic strip characters.

 THE CAST of ‘You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown.’