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 Isra-Drama – Spotlight on Israeli Drama An event designed to expose Israeli drama to the international theatre community: festival directors, theatre directors, stage directors, artistic directors, dramaturges, translators, and journalists. During the week-long Isra-Drama, we present the best of Israel’s original playwriting on stages, accompanied by subtitles. Our guests are invited to panels and discussions… Read more

It seems that weddings, funerals, and family members who will go to any lengths to avoid a funeral they’d rather not attend, or to not miss a wedding they’ve been waiting for their whole life – are universal subjects. A Winter Funeral by Hanoch Levin has been performed at Théâtre du Rideau de Bruxelles in… Read more

Eurodram is a European theatre translation network covering European, Mediterranean and Central Asian languages. The network is organised into roughly 30 language-based committees. Eurodram’s main objective is promote contemporary plays from across the wider European area to theatre professionals and theatre audiences. The plays are selected through two biennial competitions The Eurodram Hebrew committee selected three plays for 2018:… Read more

After nominated one of the ten most interesting performances on Camden Fringe Festival, the play “Under The Skin” by Jonathan Calderon, directed by Ariella Eshed, will debute at the end of the month on Old Red Lion Theater in London. The production will also participate in Brighton Fringe Festival this May.

Maya Arad Yasur‘s latest play AMSTERDAM is one of six plays selected for the  Theatertreffen Stückemarkt in Berlin which will take place in May 2018. AMSTERDAM will have a staged reading in Festival d’Avignon in July 2018, in the context of the France-Israel events (translated to French by Laurence Sendrowicz) Her play SUSPENDED will have a German… Read more

  17/3/18 was a first World Premiere of I❤MAMMA  by Hadar Galron A comedy with dramatic streaks about the challenges of modern Motherhood. Originally written for and with (via improv.) third year students at Beit-Zvi schol of dramatic arts, I made a new version of the play – (changed the outline story) especially for ABC… Read more

A Russian-French production of Krum by Hanoch Levin, directed by Jean Belloriniwhich was performed in January. in the Alexandrinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg, then crossed Europe and performed in Théâtre Gérard Philipe in Saint-Denis, France, where it gained critical acclaim. The Hanoch Levin Institute of Israeli Drama, which represents the production rights to Hanoch Levin’s plays… Read more

The Czech premiere of The Disabled by Gur Koren was held at the Kladno Theatre after being performed to great success in Rome last year. The playwright will be the guest of honor at a performance on March 22 The Hanoch Levin Institute of Israeli Drama announced that the rights to Gur Koren’s plays (The… Read more

A British production of the play “Under the Skin“, by Yonatan Calderon, will take place on July in Women and War Festival in London. The play, directed by Ariella Eshed and produced by Tik-Sho-Ret theatre company, deals with an impossible love affair between a lesbian Nazi officer and a female Jewish prisoner in WWII. https://www.womenandwar.co.uk/under-the-skin… Read more

The show “Under the Skin”, written by Yonatan Calderon and directed by Rakefet Binyamin, will be performed at the MoldFest international theater festival. The festival will be held from the 1st till the 7th of December in Kishinev, Moldova. The show, along with the performance “Rishomon”, was elected out of 18 other Israeli nominees to… Read more