The Magic Flute Yael Shuv 26/10/2026 66During my last visit to London, I noticed a growing trend on the West End: several major musicals, including Into...
Tosca Yael Shuv 20/07/2026 582Floria Tosca is one of opera’s most complex and compelling heroines. Unlike the innocent victims who populate so many operas,...
The House of Bernarda Alba Yael Shuv 06/07/2026 708One of the most striking images in Gesher Theatre’s production of Federico García Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba comes...
West Side Story Yael Shuv 21/06/2026 859Beit Lessin Theatre’s new production of West Side Story could – and should – have been truly memorable. The set...
Nabucco Yael Shuv 16/06/2026 680Nabucco, Giuseppe Verdi’s 1842 “Zionist opera,” was his first major success. At the time, it was embraced by Italian audiences,...
The Dybbuk Yael Shuv 19/02/2026 1390S. An-sky’s play The Dybbuk, written in Russian between 1913 and 1916 and later translated into Yiddish by the author...
Iolanta Yael Shuv 21/01/2026 1135Iolanta was the final opera composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. This one-act lyric work premiered on 18 December 1892, just...
Don’t Tell Mum (אף מילה לאמא ) Rivka Jacobson 15/01/2026 2315Presented at Beit Lessin Theatre, one of Tel Aviv’s leading venues for contemporary Israeli drama, Don’t Tell Mum reflects the theatre’s...
Dido and Aeneas Yael Shuv 19/11/2025 1831Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas is among the most frequently performed Baroque operas. It is short, requires a modest cast,...
Priscilla Queen of the Desert Yael Shuv 02/10/2025 2289Based on the 1994 cult classic The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, this jukebox musical — packed with...
