Musical

The boy who wouldn't grow up takes the stage, and he's bringing the whole cast with him

What if Peter Pan was really about the parents left waiting? Go behind the scenes of a funny, magical new production that moved its own director to tears.

'Never grow up': Inside Israel's new Peter Pan musical
osh Grisetti and Rob McClure from the cast of "Something Rotten" perform at 106.7 LITE FM's Broadway in Bryant Park in Bryant Park on August 11, 2016 in New York City.

Josh Grisetti, musical theater actor on 'The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,' dies at 44

Olga Sharutenko performs as Cinderella (L) with Andrey Penkin as Lord Mayor's Son during a photocall for Cinderella on Ice at the Royal Albert Hall in London, on February 24, 2010.

From Frozen to Cinderella: Ice spectaculars arrive across Israel this summer

 Kanye West attends the 67th Annual GRAMMY Awards on February 02, 2025 in Los Angeles, California.

Kanye West concert in Prague scrapped as venue owner terminates contract - report


MTV Europe Music Awards canceled amid Israel-Gaza crisis

A spokesperson cited the escalation as a security concern for visitors from all over the world.

 TAYLOR SWIFT accepts the Video of the Year Award during the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards  last week.

Joanna Merlin, original Tzeitel in Broadway’s ‘Fiddler,’ dies at 92

In an interview for the 2016 PBS documentary series “American Masters,” Merlin said she auditioned eight times before the director of “Fiddler,” Jerome Robbins.

Fiddler on the Roof

What's new to do in Israel's capital?

Jerusalem highlights: October 6-12

 SEE ‘PETER PAN’ by the Cameri Theatre company

Iconic film ‘Late Summer Blues’ becomes a stage musical - review

Beit Lessin Theater presents this new musical exactly 50 years since the 1973 Yom Kippur War, about a group in the weeks before their induction into the IDF in 1970.

 THE LANDMARK Israeli film ‘Late Summer Blues’ comes to the stage.

The Drimer sisters mount a theatrical rescue mission for their father in new show

That play was Peter Handke’s Offending the Audience in which four actors analyze the nature of theater and then both insult their audience and praise its “performance.” 

 ANAT (L) AND Nurit Drimer with Amir Meyuhas (standing) in ‘Good Place Where All is Bad.’

The third edition of the Witches Festival digs into a range of female sonic fare

A musical event bringing together female performers of all backgrounds.

 NOUR DARWISH

'We Will Rock You': West End musical hit to make Israel debut

We Will Rock You, the Queen musical, may be short on plot, but its 24 songs from the classic British rock band still makes an electrifying experience.

 ‘WE WILL Rock You’ presents a fast-paced, fist-pumping, foot-stomping anthem to individuality.

‘Sacrifices’ dramatizes the Second Temple story on stage

“This tale of our forefathers, of our sages, is about how we went through this and we didn’t think our city and our society could end, no one thought of that as an option...  but it happened.” 

 DESTINY REA and Michael Maliakel in the English-language musical ‘Sacrifices.’

Classic Yiddish tale 'Wandering Stars' gets Jerusalem musical adaptation

It has taken more than a century for the Wandering Stars to make it into bona-fide theatrical form, but the Jerusalem-based Encore Educational Theatre Company is doing just that.

 ‘WANDERING STARS’ tells the tale of a love lost in the shtetl and refound in New York.

Sheldon Harnick, the lyricist of ‘Fiddler on the Roof,’ dies at 99

Harnick — whose paeans to Jewish tradition have become internationally appreciated as a reflection of cultural loss — died Friday at his home in Manhattan.

Sheldon Harnick accepts the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre during the American Theatre Wing's 70th annual Tony Awards in New York, US, June 12, 2016.