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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 534

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The musicians participating in this year's Piano Festival October 24-30, 2023, including Ivri Lider, Ilai Botner, Miri Mesika, Shlomi Shaban, Danny Sanderson, Mosh Ben Ari, Shaanan Streett and others (Courtesy David Granot)
September 8, 2023, 2:56 pm
TA’s Piano Festival celebrates 25 years with week of performances
Some of the biggest local names in music will perform in smaller, more intimate venues around the city
By Jessica Steinberg
A heckler interrupts the performance of Exit the King at the Cameri Theatre in Tel Aviv on August 11, 2023. (Screen capture/Twitter)
August 11, 2023, 9:07 pm
Hecklers interrupt absurdist drama in Tel Aviv over supposed Netanyahu critique
Convinced actors used 1962 play about king clinging to power as put down against PM, an audience member shouts that cast is out of line, prompting chants of ‘democracy’ from others
By ToI Staff
'My Happy Ending,' Israeli film starring Andie MacDowell and in Israeli theaters as of June 1, 2023. (Courtesy)
June 3, 2023, 1:48 pm
Andie MacDowell stars in Israeli film about life choices, based on Cameri play
‘My Happy Place’ tells story about cancer, women and friendships in unlikely places
By Jessica Steinberg
Actors Ron Orlovsky and Maia Karo play former husband and wife in 'Divorced,' whose staging in private homes creates an intimate and intense viewing experience. (Zach Schaffer/ via JTA)
November 22, 2021, 4:27 am
An Israeli play is being performed across NYC — but only in people’s living rooms
‘Divorced,’ the American version of the Hebrew drama ‘Grushim,’ was born during COVID-19 theater closings – but its producers say its intimate appeal gives it staying power
By julia GERGELY
Illustrative: An Israeli couple wait for a play to begin in Tel Aviv on June 5, 2013. (Zuzana Janku/Flash 90)
February 2, 2021, 12:43 pm
Tel Aviv and theaters fund incubators to set stage for new class of dramatists
City and 4 repertory theaters split cost of NIS 640,000 program to develop works by local playwrights under 40, with hopes to bring them to the stage when doors can reopen
By Jessica Steinberg
'Rehearsals' co-creators Noa Koler, left and Erez Drigues, who also play the lead roles on the show (Courtesy Vered Adir)
January 23, 2021, 8:01 am
With theater actors’ legs intact, TV’s ‘Rehearsals’ breaks a heart instead
Actors Erez Drigues and Noa Koler, a one-time real-life couple, bring their fictionalized break-up to Kan for a surprise runaway hit that’s an ode to the shuttered theater world
By Jessica Steinberg
Theater artists protesting in Tel Aviv, April 12, 2020, demanding the government address their needs during the coronavirus pandemic(Courtesy EVE)
May 17, 2020, 5:16 am
When the stage shuts down, is all the world a screen?
Performers bemoan the lack of live art in the age of the coronavirus, and wonder if audiences will be there when they return
By Jessica Steinberg
Yona Atari (Twitter)
March 11, 2019, 12:11 pm
Actress and singer Yona Atari dies at 85
Netanyahu praises Israeli star of the ’50s and ’60s as ‘paragon of talent in everything she did’
By ToI Staff
One of the iconic scenes in the revival of 'Fiddler on the Roof' (Courtesy 'Fiddler on the Roof')
August 28, 2018, 8:38 pm
Israeli actor to play Tevye in Broadway Fiddler revival
Stage and screen actor and singer Yehezkel Lazarov will bring his skills to the show as it travels around the US
By Jessica Steinberg
Efrat Ben Zur in 'To the End of the Land' performed at New York's Lincoln Center July 24-27, 2017 by Habima National Theater and the Cameri Theatre of Tel Aviv. (Gérard Allon)
July 6, 2017, 8:47 pm
70 artists call for cancellation of Israeli play in New York
Actors, writers sign letter against Lincoln Center performance of show, based on David Grossman novel, and sponsored by Israeli government
By ToI Staff
The facade of the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center, New York, New York. (Paul Masck/Wikipedia/CC BY-SA 2.5)
From the WebJuly 6, 2017, 6:21 am
US artists protest Lincoln Center play backed by Israel
Boycott group calls for New York theater to cancel adaptation of David Grossman book, The New York Times reports
A memorial stone for Anne Frank and her sister Margot on the grounds of the former Prisoner of War (POW) and concentration camps Bergen-Belsen in Bergen, north of Hanover, central Germany, on June 21, 2015. (AFP / NIGEL TREBLIN)
June 13, 2016, 5:24 am
Who owns the diary of Anne Frank?
On the occasion her 87th birthday, an update on the world’s latest commercial incarnations of the human face of Holocaust victims
By Matt Lebovic
Israeli stage actress Orna Porat (screen capture: YouTube)
August 6, 2015, 10:52 am
Legendary stage actress Orna Porat dies, age 91
Born Irene Klein in Germany, she moved to Israel, converted, and became an Israel Prize-winning thespian
By ToI Staff
Director general of the Cameri Theatre, Noam Semel on May 2, 2012. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
June 14, 2015, 9:04 pm
Fearing IS, Israeli theater group requests security escort abroad
Tel Aviv’s Cameri asks for Shin Bet protection on Balkans tour; play based on the massacre of 1,600 Polish Jews
By Eytan Weinstein
File: On the outside looking in at home, the West Bank city of Ariel (photo: Yossi Zamir/Flash 90)
December 25, 2013, 9:26 pm
Israeli actors sit out show at settlement theater
Three actors from the Cameri and Beit Lessin theater troups ask to be excused from production in West Bank town of Ariel
By Aron Heller
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