musical

The curtain goes up on musical ‘Vilna’

'Vilna' is the brainchild of Kevin and Allison Cloud, a married writing team in Kansas City, and Lisa Kenner Grissom, a playwright and screenwriter in Los Angeles.

By GEORGE MEDOVOY
13/05/2024

A flood of talent in ‘Rusalka’

This much beloved opera, with its mythical and folk aspects, has delighted opera fans since its world premiere in 1901

Barbra Streisand bestowed with Screen Actor's Guild lifetime award

This is the first SAG award for an EGOT winner - having won Emmys, Grammys, Oscars, and an honorary Tony award.

25/02/2024

Honoring Holocaust victim and Austrian musician Viktor Ullmann

One can only hazard a guess at what Ullmann may have gone on to write and produce, had his life circumstances been kinder.

07/02/2024

Kanye’s new song reopens antisemitism wounds: 'I f**** a Jewish b****'

Kanye's new song is just the latest in a long history of the rapper's antisemitism.

WATCH: Broadway stars sing 'Bring Him Home' in tribute to Gaza hostages

Broadway stars, including Debra Messing and Jeremy Jordan, gathered together in a recording booth, or at home, and recorded both voice and film.

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.

By REUTERS
19/10/2023

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.

By ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL / JTA
17/10/2023

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

Jerusalem highlights: October 6-12

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.

By NERIA BARR
05/10/2023
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