Theater

What a new play gets right about ‘Birthright’ and our anguished Jewish conversation - opinion

Jonathan Spector’s “Birthright,” now at MCC Theater, uses the free Israel trip as the starting point for decades of wrestling with Israel, Judaism and friendship.

JUNE 30, 2026|ByTORI GREENE/JTA

In "Birthright," on stage at the MCC Theater in New York, friends reconnect over the years and confront their differences over Israel and Jewishness.

‘To infinity and beyond!' Watching ‘Toy Story 5’ with my son on the spectrum - comment

The villains in the early movies – Sid in "Toy Story 1" and the Prospector and Al in "Toy Story 2" – were wonderfully awful, and Danny always knew who the bad guys were.

JUNE 28, 2026|ByHANNAH BROWN

'Shards of Laughter': Giving people permission to laugh through painful topics

The play’s arc takes us from 1924 Munkács, a Czechoslovak town with deep Hungarian roots, through the Holocaust years and to present-day Australia.

JUNE 28, 2026|ByYAEL UNTERMAN

PERIDANCE OPERATES as a platform for multiple artistic languages.

Int'l dance company arrives in Israel, proving Hora can be a state of mind

Igal Perry and New York’s Peridance Contemporary Dance Company arrive in Israel with a program spanning styles – and one deeply personal hora.

JUNE 27, 2026|ByNERIA BARR

Cameri Theater honors dramatist Hanoch Levin in wartime production - review

The homage production by the Cameri Theater marked the late Levin’s 80th birthday.

NOVEMBER 10, 2024ByHAGAY HACOHEN

A SCENE from ‘Whoever Wasn’t Born Is Missing Out.’

New theatre production ‘Collective Phenomena’ reveals story of defiant Soviet-Jewish scientists

The director of Collective Phenomena, Semion Aleksandrovskiy, shared a little of this complex history via his own family story.

NOVEMBER 10, 2024ByHAGAY HACOHEN

‘COLLECTIVE PHENOMENA’ director Semion Aleksandrovskiy.

Zombies galore at Surround Festival in Tel Aviv

October, a new musical performance by Daniel Sapir and the FTW Orchestra, is a bold attempt to express in music the pain, rage, and sorrow felt after the October 7 terror attack.

OCTOBER 27, 2024ByHAGAY HACOHEN

‘ZOMBIE DRIVE IN’ will be presented at the Surround Festival.

Tel Aviv's Kipod Hazahav festival brings 16 independent productions to the stage

The Golden Porcupine competition for independent theater will return to Tel Aviv next month with some of Israeli theater's best shows.

OCTOBER 22, 2024ByHAGAY HACOHEN

Kipod Hazahav offerings include ‘Full Tank'.

Gilat Foundation uses therapeutic theater to uplift children in hospitals

"These children are already in vulnerable situations. That’s why offering them therapeutic theater every week, giving them a space to feel like normal kids, is so vital."

OCTOBER 20, 2024ByFELICE FRIEDSON, VERONICA NEIFAKH