Jerusalem theater

Jerusalem Theatre hosts Massenet’s Cinderella in a one-time opera event

A modern, adult take on ‘Cinderella’ as composed by Jules Massenet – a joint production of The Jerusalem Opera and The Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra.

|ByBASIA MONKA
Cinderella meets the prince – rehearsal of the Jerusalem premiere of ‘Cinderella,’ opera by Massenet.
Artist Tamar Aluf with her exhibit ‘Painting Longing’ in the Jerusalem Theatre’s Sherover Foyer. Paintings behind her from L, clockwise: ‘Horizon of a House,’ acrylic (2025); ‘The Fabric of Life’ (2025); ‘Longing’ (2025).

Painting longing: Journey through loss, memory, and renewal

Tamar Aluf paints longing, turning personal loss into art that resonates with memory, emotion, and renewal.

|ByTOBY KLEIN GREENWALD
The entrance to the Jerusalem Theatre is seen in a photo taken May 21, 2024

My Word: Making music amid the noise - opinion

The ideals of Koolulam, “a social-musical initiative aimed at strengthening the fabric of society,” sound lofty but the events are fun and unifying.

|ByLIAT COLLINS
Chitravina N. Ravikiran plays the chitravina, one of the lesser-known Indian string instruments.

From India and the world with love: The superb offerings at the Jerusalem Oud Festival

This year’s Jerusalem International Oud Festival offers a broad sweep of ethnic and other music genres for our listening uplifting entertainment.

|ByBARRY DAVIS

Unsettling discovery: ‘In a Stranger’s Grave’

When one’s Jewish identity is suddenly stripped away, what is the price of cleaving to one’s convictions in the face of authority?

MAY 16, 2019ByYAKIR FELDMAN
THESE PHOTOS of some of the cast members in action were taken last week at a rehearsal of ‘In a Stranger’s Grave.’

58th Israel Festival continues to grow more Israeli

Lineup includes Itim, Clipa and Zik Theaters, Gilad Kahana’s ‘Beats Per Second’

APRIL 1, 2019ByHELEN KAYE, BARRY DAVIS
SWEDEN’S CULLBERG Dance Company will perform ‘Figure a Sea’ by Deborah Hay with music by Laurie Anderson

Theater review: The kite runner

Kite Runner demonstrates the metastatic evil of prejudice.

NOVEMBER 20, 2018ByHELEN KAYE
A SCENE FROM ‘The kite runner’

Funny in French

Oh La La film festival finds France’s funniest films

NOVEMBER 13, 2018ByHANNAH BROWN
A SCENE from ‘Return of the Hero’ with Jean Dujardin and Melanie Laurent

Life is still a ‘Cabaret’

The beloved Broadway musical comes to Jerusalem’s AACI stage.

NOVEMBER 12, 2018ByARIEL DOMINIQUE HENDELMAN
TWO MEMBERS of the cast from ‘Cabaret.’

Khan takes on a young look

The “Kimat Mukhan” project is a play on words inferring the embryonic nature of the performers’ artistic development and work.

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018ByBARRY DAVIS
A recent rendition of S.Y. Agnon’s ‘In the Prime of Her Life.’

Shakespeare comes to life in Jerusalem Public Theater’s ‘As You Like It’

There is a new English-speaking theater group in town, and for its first act it is proving that Shakespeare is fun.

JUNE 18, 2018ByYAKIR FELDMAN
'As You Like It' at the Jerusalem Public Theater

Excuse me, Mr. President

The AACI brings Stephen Sondheim’s ‘Assassins’ to Jerusalem

FEBRUARY 17, 2018ByARIEL DOMINIQUE HENDELMAN
HOW TO make a comedy about presidential assassins: (at left) Howard Metz as Sam Byck; Miriam Metzinger (left) as Sara Jane Moore and Rachel Raanan as Squeaky Fromme

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JANUARY 25, 2018ByJPOST.COM STAFF
A scene from HBO’s documentary film The Number on Great-Grandpa’s Arm

From the spirit to the theater

Elisheva Mazia steps up as the new general director of the Khan Theater

JANUARY 18, 2018ByPEGGY CIDOR
he Khan kicked off an English translation project with its new production of S.Y. Agnon’s play ‘Tehila'