Nephesh Theatre's One of a Kind at The New Victory Theater, NY
By Gwen Orel
Nephesh Theatre's One of a Kind has won all kinds of awards since its debut at the Haifa International Children's Theatre Festival in 2005. This children's theatre production is so packed with life, joy, and insight that it makes adult theatre seem flabby. |
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Nephesh Theatre from Tel Aviv on tour to Broadway
This production which comprises one of the only African theatre ensembles in the world, has become the most acclaimed Ethiopian ensemble in Israel. It has become a major cultural institution In Israel, and a leader among the very few authentic manifestations of Ethiopian-Jewish culture world-wide. The play depicts the modern day story of a 700 kilometer journey by foot of Ethiopian Jews between 1982-1986, |
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Israeli Dance Takes Center Stage in New York
By Liel Leibovitz
Even with no prior knowledge of modern dance, one shouldn’t be too hard-pressed to pin down the subject of this encomium: The marriage of madness and grace is strongly evocative of Israel, and no one, perhaps, is a more nimble author of the aforementioned waltz than Ohad Naharin, the country’s top choreographer and the driving force behind Batsheva, the internationally acclaimed Israeli dance company that will feature the New York debut of its new work, “Telophaza,” at the Lincoln Center Festiva |
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Discovering Elijah from Tel Aviv will have its US Premiere at the JCC Manhattan on March 2005
This is an attempt to evoke the earth-shattering event of the Yom Kippur War of 1973 through the extraordinary text by S. Yizhar, which, in searing language and from a perspective of time, tries to penetrate the surface down to the individual tremor and ask the moral questions that seep through the story of this war.
The stage production presents a disintegrated reality, a reality made of fragments that have lost their normal contexts. It attempts to dismantle, and then reexamine, the particles |
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The Situation Comedy at Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2004
The Situation Comedy is a terribly moving, honest, occasionally hilarious, and often harrowing look at the daily reality of life in the Middle East in the 21st century. Our hero walks on stage and falteringly begins his job interview....He is late. ...Very late. ...Thirty five days late. At the same time as persuading the panel why he would be ideal for the job, he must also explain why he is so late. In this first show to emerge from Israel on this subject, writer Robbie Gringras steers a coura |
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Biblical opera "Nabucco" by Giuseppe Verdi Directed by JACOBO KAUFMANN at Teatro dell'Opera di Roma
Jacobo Kaufmann, Israeli acclaimed theatre and opera director, has been invited to direct and design the scenery of the Biblical opera "Nabucco" by Librettist: Temistocle Solera Based on the Bible and Giuseppe Verdi,(Premiere 9th March 1842 at La Scala, Milan. ) at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, opening at the world famous Terme di Caracalla on July 13, 2004. There will be 5 more performancs until July 18. he is the first Israeli ever to be hired to direct an opera in Italy. |
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American audiences to experience an Israeli 'bridge' to theater
One of Israel's most respected artistic institutions will be on display for American audiences when Israel's Gesher Theater performs at the Lincoln Center Festival next month. The troupe has been invited to mark the Centennial of Nobel Laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer's birth by performing two plays based on his novels at the prestigious festival.
"This is the fourth time we've performed in the U.S. The last time we were at Lincoln Center was in 1998. We were very successful and they tend to invi |
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Good will hunting
By Inna Shapiro
A satirical, cabaret-style performance peppered with multimedia effects and a mixture of humor and social and political criticism, "Ambassadors of Very Good Will" has been making the rounds at American universities in recent days. The production features two young Israeli actors, Ibrahim Miari of Acre and Meirav Kupperberg of Haifa, who met at the Acre Theater Center when working together on a number of productions. Their close friendship engendered the idea of putting on a play based on their p |
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Nephesh Theatre bring Ambassadors of Very Good Will to University of California
In light of the recent survey that has named Israel to pose the greatest danger to world peace, Meirav and Ibrahim take it upon themselves to improve Israeli’s image in the world. Ibrahim and Meirav are two young and ambitious actors who embark on an emotional journey to bring Jews and Arabs closer by stressing what they share in an attempt to bridge the differences between their two people. |
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Batsheva Dance Company heads to the United States and Europe
The Batsheva Dance Company heads to the United States on February 26 for a five-week run of Ohad Naharin's Deca-Dance. The 17 performances will take place in 11 cities through March 24. Following the US tour, Batsheva will perform in England (April), Italy (May), France (July), and again return to the US (July-August). |
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Gesher to perform at Lincoln Center
By Viva Sarah Press
The Gesher Theater Company has been added to the prestigious 2004 Lincoln Center Festival line-up.
Nigel Redden, director of the New York event, announced on December 21 that Gesher's productions of Isaac Bashevis-Singer's The Slave and Shosha would be included in the July festival bill. |
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Tel Aviv-born, Bronx-bred Nini was named a celebrity ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
By Julia Goldman
Tel Aviv-born, Bronx-bred Nini took on a new travel assignment. She was named a celebrity ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
At 34, Nini is one of Israel’s most popular singers and has a devoted following in Europe. She has sung for the pope, for presidents and prime ministers, has opened for Sting and played Carnegie Hall. Nini is also a vocal proponent for peace |
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Israeli Theatre Around the World
Despite cuts in Israeli cultural budgets, and despite Israel’s difficult political position, Israeli theatre has found itself in high demand on the stages of the world and in prestigious festivals. The projects are supported and sponsored by the Israel Foreign Ministry Division for Cultural and Scientific Affairs. |
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Arye's Gesher, a Hit in Israel, Comes to Lincoln Center
By Blake Eskin
"The Gesher's work ethic is quite a unique phenomenon in the landscape of Israeli theaters," Mr. Sobol said. "They take a long rehearsal period of at least four months, while our theaters rehearse a show for six weeks, the maximum being eight weeks. The rehearsals at Gesher are often long day's journeys into night, with such a total commitment on the part of the actors as is simply unknown in our theaters." |
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Israel's Habimah Theater Finally Arrives Stateside
By Raphael Mostel
For its first New York visit in 40 years, the renowned National Theater of Israel, Habimah, will present two fact-based modern dramas involving Jewish children growing up with a parent veering into madness. "Kaddish L'Naomi," Habimah's theatrical adaptation of Allen Ginsberg's searing memorial poem for his mother.and "Summer of Aviyah," Gila Almagor's one-woman dramatic adaptation of her famous coming-of-age memoir of her own mother. |
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Hanoch Levin's Luggage Packers at Columbia University/Barnard College, New York.
By Avraham Oz
Director Amit Gazit and set and costume designer Tali Itzhaki, both on the faculty of the Department of Theatre, University of Haifa, have been specially invited to produce Hanoch Levin's Luggage Packers at Columbia University/Barnard College, New York. |
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The Israelis Bring the Greeks to New York
By Irene Backalenick
"Mythos" was Israel's contribution to Lincoln Center Festival 2003 (performed in Hebrew, with simultaneous English translation). With commendable purpose and effective at times, the piece, over all, came across as curiously static. Though carefully choreographed, with the company's disciplined performances to match, the movement is slow, dirge-like, creating an effect more sedating than mesmerizing. It was more a tone poem than a theatrical piece. |
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The Performing Arts Studio Founded by Yoram Loewenstein from Israel participating at the ITs Festival in Amsterdam
The Israeli playwright Sigal Avin has created together with the students a theatrical experience that is both macabre and enchanting, a nightmarish circus without words.
Between two circus midgets, Bas and Cheri, develops a story of love and betrayal. Her heart is broken .... |
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