How A New Play Reimagines Rural Hunan For The Modern Stage
In the new stage adaptation of the iconic 1934 novel The Border Town, Israeli director Ruth Kanner...
Read MorePosted by Fan Yiying | 27th May 2024 | China, Interview, Israel
In the new stage adaptation of the iconic 1934 novel The Border Town, Israeli director Ruth Kanner...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 10th Dec 2022 | Israel, London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Julia Pascal is a resourceful theatre-maker who is unafraid of being controversial. Her interest...
Read MorePosted by Emiliia Dementsova | 9th Dec 2020 | Festivals, Israel, News
If theater around the world previously sought to destroy the fourth wall, it has recently had to...
Read MorePosted by Vassili Schedrin | 25th Sep 2020 | Interview, Israel, Poland, Puppetry, Theatre and Film, Theatre and Politics
My family is not Jewish and therefore I never celebrated Jewish holidays at home. However, I have...
Read MorePosted by Vassili Schedrin | 12th Jul 2020 | Essay, Israel, Russia
Solomon Mikhoels, one of the founders and greatest stars of the Soviet Yiddish theater, wrote in...
Read MorePosted by Janice Weizman | 11th Jul 2019 | Dramaturgy, Interview, Israel, Theatre and Politics, Translation
Although Hanoch Levin (1943–1999) is arguably Israel’s most important playwright, his work is...
Read MorePosted by Henrik Eger | 30th Jun 2019 | Interview, Israel, Palestine, Theatre and Dance, Theatre and Politics, Transcultural Collaborations
Ibrahim Miari, son of a Palestinian Muslim father and Jewish Israeli mother, grew up in Israel,...
Read MorePosted by Kathy Foley | 26th May 2019 | Israel, Palestine, Review, Theatre and Politics, Transcultural Collaborations, United Kingdom, United States of America
Scenes from 71* Years is a play of remembrance showing a diasporic perspective on the Palestinian...
Read MorePosted by Romy König | 21st Apr 2019 | Israel, News
Video artist Yael Bartana blurs the boundaries between fact and fiction: her pieces are powerful...
Read MorePosted by Shimon Levy | 15th Mar 2019 | Essay, Israel
In comparison with West European theater, Hebrew theater is young: only a century separates the...
Read MorePosted by Esplanade | 14th Dec 2018 | Israel, Puppetry, Review, Theatre for Young Audiences
How puppetry makes big issues relatable to children Their unvarying intensity of facial...
Read MorePosted by Ezekiel Oliveira | 4th Feb 2018 | Israel, Review, Singapore, Theatre and Dance, Theatre and Gender
A dreamy, perfect 1950’s housewife stands in the middle of a kitchen, cracking eggs and stirring...
Read MorePosted by Yana Meerzon | 4th Jan 2018 | Directing, Germany, Israel, Review
Doing It Right! Yael Ronen, an Israeli theatre director working for the Maxim Gorki Theater in...
Read MorePosted by Mathias Daval | 16th Dec 2017 | Festivals, Israel, Review
Each year, the Hanoch Levin Institute organizes a showcase of theatre creations: International...
Read MorePosted by Alvina Ruprecht | 6th Dec 2017 | Canada, Israel, Review, Theatre and Dance
This latest work by the Israeli dance company LEV Dance, created by Sharon Eyal and Gai Behar is a...
Read MorePosted by Gad Kaynar | 18th Sep 2016 | Essay, Israel
The late Israeli critic, Dr. Shosh Avigal, wrote in 1996 that: “It is private life that is...
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