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Composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim gestures during a gathering at Tufts University in Medford, Mass., Monday, April 12, 2004. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
May 23, 2026, 11:52 am
New biography hits the high and low notes of Broadway legend Stephen Sondheim’s life
Author Daniel Okrent doesn’t miss a beat analyzing the music, lyrics — and complicated personality — of the extremely secular Jewish maverick who revolutionized American musical theater
By Renee Ghert-Zand
US President Donald Trump stands in the presidential box as he tours the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, Monday, March 17, 2025. (Pool via AP)
March 21, 2025, 8:03 am
Trump, taking over Kennedy center, says ‘Fiddler’ one of his favs
US president has fired staff of Washington’s performing arts center, declaring its programming was too ‘woke’ and claiming he has unfulfilled musical talents himself
By PHILISSA CRAMER
The son of a renowned cantor, 11-year-old Yair Keydar, left, makes his New York stage debut in "Drag: The Musical" at New World Stages. Also pictured: Actors Joey McIntyre and Luxx Noir London. (Matthew Murphy)
December 11, 2024, 7:04 pm
Son of cantor, 11, makes Broadway debut in musical on drag queens
Yair Keydar has always been drawn to music, performing since he was a toddler while sharing the bimah with his cantor mom, and today attends the after-school Broadway Bound Academy
By Steve North
The Benhamou family of Paris conducts a Passover Seder in a scene from Broadway's "Prayer for the French Republic," which was nominated for three 2024 Tony Awards. (Jeremy Daniel via JTA)
May 2, 2024, 10:23 am
Two shows on antisemitism sweep 2024 Tony nominations
Revival of ‘Cabaret,’ about Weimar-era Berlin club, gets 9 nominations, while ‘Prayer for the French Republic,’ a 3-hour drama on antisemitism in France in 2016, snags 3
By Lisa Keys
Nicolette Luisa and Stuart Brown as Scarabouche and Galileo in 'We Will Rock You," the Queen musical onstage at Tel Aviv's Opera House through September 14, 2023 (Courtesy Alon Levin)
August 31, 2023, 8:10 pm
Queen-inspired ‘We Will Rock You’ musical rhapsodizes Tel Aviv
Critically panned but loved by fans worldwide, the show written by Ben Elton with band’s tunes tells dystopian tale
By Jessica Steinberg
The Empire State Building in New York City, November 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson, File)
May 25, 2023, 6:43 pm
Israeli expelled from NYC drama school after sexual harassment allegations
26-year-old claims accusations against him by seven students are fabrications and misrepresentations, expulsion motivated by antisemitism
By ToI Staff
From 'We Will Rock You,' the West End musical based on the music of Queen, coming to Israel in August 2023 (Courtesy Stuart Glover)
January 19, 2023, 11:37 am
Music of Queen comes to Israel with ‘We Will Rock You’ musical
While often panned by critics, play is audience favorite that ran for 10 years on London’s West End
By Jessica Steinberg
'Bustan Sephardi' cast seen on stage in Rabat, Morocco, November 2022. (Channel 12)
December 11, 2022, 5:36 pm
Israeli musical plays in Morocco in Hebrew — a first for any Arab country
Production’s arrival underlines warming relations between the countries; Israeli cast welcomed with open arms, Channel 12 says
By Tobias Siegal
Image: Actor, singer and cantor Eyal Sherf onstage at Habima in Tel Aviv (Courtesy)
April 1, 2022, 1:40 pm
Podcast: Tradition! The Israeli actor who got hooked on Broadway favorites
Eyal Sherf dipped into musicals as a teen, and now acts, sings and lectures about musical theater, offering us a taste of his show
By ToI Staff
The Jewish creators of 'West Side Story,' Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents, on the opening night of the original Broadway musical, on September 26, 1957. (Ben Martin/Getty Images/ via JTA)
December 12, 2021, 2:53 am
Jews were behind the original ‘West Side Story’ and today’s remake. Should they be?
Originally titled ‘East Side Story,’ the musical was about warring Jews and Catholics and was altered to reflect a changing NYC. Now, critics ask: Is the classic truly ‘timeless’?
By Jordyn Haime
A general view of the exterior of the Apollo Theater in London, Thursday, April 8, 2021, which is preparing to continue its run of the musical 'Everybody's Talking About Jamie' (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
April 25, 2021, 6:51 am
After year-long intermission, London’s West End readies for next act
Shuttered by COVID-19, one of the world’s top theater scenes is preparing, with hope and apprehension, to welcome audiences back
By Jill Lawless
Left: a portrait of Golda Meir in Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda market by Solomon Souza (Renee Ghert-Zand/TOI); Right: Dame Maureen Lipman (Jay Brooks)
February 11, 2021, 3:37 am
Golda Meir given posthumous encore in debut of newly rediscovered musical
Celebrated UK actress Maureen Lipman to sing ‘Next Year in Jerusalem,’ title song in a never-seen show about the female Israeli PM, for Jewish Music Institute’s online gala Feb. 11
By Anne Joseph
The family and friends cast of 'Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat,' a production created solely for the coronavirus bar mitzvah celebration of Jerusalem 13-year-old Adin Markowitz (Courtesy Laura Ben-David)
December 23, 2020, 6:53 pm
Family brings ‘Technicolor Dreamcoat’ to life for bar mitzvah
Refusing to let plans be ruined by pandemic, musical theater-crazy Jerusalem family spend 6 months planning, rehearsing and filming classic in desert for single showing
By Jessica Steinberg
FILE - In this Monday, Dec, 10, 2012 file photo, lyricist Herbert Kretzmer and his wife Sybil Sever attend the premiere for "Les Miserables" at the Ziegfeld Theatre, in New York. Kretzmer, the journalist and lyricist best known for his English-language adaptation of the musical Les Misérables, has died. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
October 15, 2020, 8:42 am
Herbert Kretzmer, lyricist of Les Miserables, dead at 95
Son of Jewish-Lithuanian immigrants to South Africa lauded as a ‘masterful wordsmith,’ ‘great lyricist and man of theatre’
By Pan Pylas
Tehila the Kosher Diva (aka Yael Yekel) (Dvir Chalamish)
September 9, 2020, 4:31 pm
Kosher Diva debuts new ‘Mizrahified’ version of hit mammeloshen song
After surprise success with Yiddish parodies of ‘Toy’ and ‘Under the Sea,’ Israeli actor and singer Yael Yekel delights with original twist on ‘Bei Mir Bistu Shein’
By Renee Ghert-Zand
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